Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Long Henry drove cautiously across the scene of yesterday's accident, and up the approach to the rocky point."
Alternate Title(s):The Ledge; The Snow Road; The Treacherous Trail
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
52 × 34 in. (132.1 × 86.4 cm)
Private collection, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.57
Research Number: NCW: 57
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 06
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, # 54803); Carolyn Wyeth; Collection of John Edward Dell, 1992 - 1995; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY); Private collection, Paoli, PA
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 39, as "The Ledge"; Brookings, SD, 1973, no. 3, as "The Snow Road"; Greenville, SD, 1974, no. 45, as "The Ledge"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1975; Princeton, NJ, 1977, no. 13; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57, illustration plate 24 on p. 43 as "The Treacherous Trail"; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Visions of Winter," Jan. 14 - March 11, 1984; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illustration in b/w p. 50, catalogue no. 24 p. 82; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, and Cincinnati, OH, Taft Museum, Feb. 8-May 3, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 119
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 268, illustration in b/w p. 126; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 85; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.148, p. 151
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 8/2002