Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Into town from the south.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2293
Research Number: NCW: 2293
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth (from reproduction)
References
Les Beitz, "N. C. Wyeth, Painter of Men . . . in Action!" True West, vol. 15, no. 2 (Nov.-Dec. 1967), illus. p. 21; Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 34, p. 36; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 263, b/w illus. p. 26; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.4, p. 101
Curatorial RemarksThis commission, which Frank Schoonover procured for Wyeth, was Wyeth's first after becoming an official member of the Howard Pyle School of Art. Pyle had been adament that Wyeth give up the pressures of commercial work during his period of instruction, and he agreed to let his student paint these pictures only during "out of school hours."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library (Scrap book B)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer