Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Above the sea of round, shiny backs the thin loops swirled and shot into volumes of dust.
Alternate Title(s):In the Corral; RG Colorado
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
38 1/4 × 26 in. (97.2 × 66 cm)
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Gift of John M. Schiff, 3.77
Accession number: SUPP2000.525
Research Number: NCW: 525
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / RG COLORADO / 1904 ; label adhered to verso: COE KERR GALLERY / 49 EAST 82nd STREET / NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); John M. Schiff, New York, NY
Exhibition HistoryCody, WY, Whitney Gallery, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Special Exhibition Opening Season, June 1 - Oct. 1, 1969, "no. 89-94 Series of six paintings of Scenes from a Cow Camp," n. p.; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, and Kiev, USSR, "Western European and American Painting from the Museums of the USA, 1976-1978; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 56, illustration in color plate 10 p. 29, as "RG Colorado"; Cody, WY, Buffalo Bill Historical Center (and other venues), "Frontier America," 12/13/88-2/25/89; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), cat. no. 1 p. 78, and color illustration p. 17, also p. 75; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, "Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West," Nov. 3, 2013-April 13, 2014, Plate no. 152, p. 94;
References
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from Wilmington, DE, newspaper; Philip Ashton Rollins, Jinglebob (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930), color illustration f. p. 162 as "In the corral"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 274, b/w illustration p. 38; The West of Buffalo Bill: Frontier Art, Indian Crafts, Memorabilia from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), illust. p. 232, as "In the Corral"; Robert W. Engel, "N. C. Wyeth's Day with the Round-Up," Buffalo Bill Historical Center Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 3 (Fall 1990), p. 2; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration p. 21; Alexander Nemerov, "N. C. Wyeth's Theater of Illustration," American Art Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2 (Spring 1992), b/w illustration p. 42, see also ps. 41-42; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), b/w illustration p. 124; Sarah E. Boehme, "N. C. Wyeth, From the Hashknife to the Palette Knife," Points West (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Fall, 2002), ps. 7, 11; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.110, p. 135
Curatorial RemarksLetters indicate that Wyeth began to work on this painting in March, 1905, a reworking of one painted in Denver the previous fall in a horizontal format (see NCW 103; and NCW to Henriette Zirngielbel Wyeth, March 24, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives). The Archives of American Art holds a photograph of Wyeth in his Wilmington studio (most likely one of the Howard Pyle student studios) with this painting on the easel (AAA, digital image #7985, Allen Tupper True and True Family Papers).
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
On August 2, 1906, Wyeth wrote his friend Sidney M. Chase that an artist he identified as "Figaro" had "swiped his corral scene--frontispiece in the March Scribner's" and used it for the cover of "Recreation" magazine.
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
On August 2, 1906, Wyeth wrote his friend Sidney M. Chase that an artist he identified as "Figaro" had "swiped his corral scene--frontispiece in the March Scribner's" and used it for the cover of "Recreation" magazine.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:(BRM files)