Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Last Stand at the Alamo
Alternate Title(s):The Siege of the Alamo
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.554
Research Number: NCW: 554
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 1130, dated 8.17.42; written on panel label: The Last Stand at / the Alamo / # 11; painted directly on reverse of panel: THE ALAMO / N. C. WYETH / I
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1944; gift to the U. S. Naval Academy
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Academy Museum, 1961), no. 221, p. 13; William C. Davis, "Remember the Alamo," American History Illustrated Magazine, vol. II, no. 6, (Oct. 1967), p. 9 as "The Siege of the Alamo"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 291; John Myers Myers, The Alamo (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1973), cover illustration in color (printed in reverse); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.164, p. 692
Curatorial RemarksExtant are a composition drawing for the image (NCW 1518); and a lantern slide (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1825.147) used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley, 1/2006