Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
In imagination she could hear the rattling of drums, the ring of bugles, the low thunder of rumbling batteries.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
34 1/8 × 25 1/8 in. (86.7 × 63.8 cm)
The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Accession number: SUPP2000.633
Research Number: NCW: 633
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1993; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE); Collection of John Edward Dell, to 1995
Exhibition HistoryAshville, NC, Walker Arts Center, The Asheville School, "Visions of Romance, Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration," April 1 - 30, 2000, no. 35, illustration in color p. 35; Newport News, VA, 2000; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Romance in Conflict, N. C. Wyeth's Civil War Paintings," Jan. 22-March 20, 2011
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 68; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 258; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), detail in color p. 101 and illustration in color p. 108; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.427, p. 256
Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley