Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The animal upon which Skiffington cantered forward was a sorry enough spectacle.
Alternate Title(s):End of a Polo Game
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1904
Dimensions:
20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Collection of Joseph and Louise Huber
Accession number: SUPP2000.1271
Research Number: NCW: 1271
InscribedLower left: N. C. Wyeth - 04 -; on reverse: label of Kennedy Galleries
Provenance(with Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY); (?); (Hunter Gallery, San Francisco, CA, ca. 1968); Private collection, Chester Springs, PA, to 1982; (Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts benefit auction, Nov. 5, 1982, no. 39)
Exhibition HistoryDenver, CO, Gallery West and Pogzeba Art Studios, sponsors, "American and Western Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 24 - Dec. 24, 1967, illustration in brochure as "End of a Polo Game"; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 266; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.30, p. 111
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Forest One Hour Foto, Lake Forest IL, 4/2001