Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Westward Ho!, title page illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
42 × 30 in. (106.7 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection, AL
Accession number: SUPP2000.503
Research Number: NCW: 503
InscribedLower right: W / '20 (all circled)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Harrison Bowers, Somerville, MA; descended in family to at least 1977; Private collection, Kaneohe, HI, to at least 1989; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); Kato Museum of Arts, Saitama-Ken, Japan; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE); Cawley Family; (Christie's, New York, NY, Nov. 30, 2006, lot no. 170)
Exhibition HistoryBirmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "Promise and Peril: Images of Westward Expansion from the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art," Oct. 28, 2007- Jan. 7, 2008
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 209; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.827, p. 409
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and annotated an edition published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1907 (Brandywine River Museum library # 22481). According to Scribner's records, all paintings in the set were the property of the artist and returned to him on Aug. 19, 1921. Scribner's paid Wyeth $3,500 for the commission.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Photo by John L. Manning, 3/2005