Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
It was the first time Smoky Face had given that particular call, but the band understood.
Alternate Title(s):Smoky Face; Smokey Face
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
32 1/4 × 40 in. (81.9 × 101.6 cm)
Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved.
Accession number: SUPP2000.638
Research Number: NCW: 638
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined); lower left: TO L W OAKS / July 1, 1917 N. C. W.; written on reverse of canvas, upper left: Convers Wyeth Smokey(sic) Face (illegible) 4018 N. Y. 1917
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Lewis Weston Oaks, Provo, Utah, and descended in family to 1989
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 256; Charlene Winters, "Wyeth's "Old Smokey" (sic) now in Y's permanent collection," Y NEWS (Brigham Young University Newsletter), vol. 15, no. 11, (Nov. 10, 1989), ps. 1-2, b/w illustration p. 1; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.689, p. 359
Curatorial RemarksLewis Weston Oaks was a student at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia who worked during the summers in Chadds Ford, where he met the artist (see Winters, above).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved.