Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (Chadds Ford landscape with barn)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1915 / 1920
Dimensions:
32 1/8 × 40 in. (81.6 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1350
Research Number: NCW: 1350
InscribedLower left: WYETH; all four stretcher keys are marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.
Provenance(?); Collection of Bob and Kay Timberlake, Lexington, NC, to 2006; (Brunk Auctions, Asheville, NC, July 15-16, lot no. 253)
Exhibition HistoryPortland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 60; High Point, NC, Sechrest Gallery, High Point University, "Wyeth: Three Generations," May 1 - June 15, 2006; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth, Illustrations and Landscape Paintings," Oct. 13--Nov. 11, 2006, illus. (unpaginated)
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.117, p. 737
Curatorial RemarksThis work is clearly related in subject and date to NCW 1331; the more detailed composition and finer brushwork suggest later. Andrew Wyeth, who also painted in the same location, remembers that this structure was on "the road leading to the Andress House--go beyond, a springhouse on the right of the road, a barn on the left. Peter Hurd used it--took naps in it" (AW, Dec. 1997, catalogue raisonne project files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Bob Timberlake