Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Fisk Tires Civilize Savage Trails
Alternate Title(s):Group of Indians on Horseback Watch in Astonishment as Car Speeds By
Medium: Oil on canvas applied to hardboard
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
32 × 71 1/2 in. (81.3 × 181.6 cm)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Accession number: SUPP2000.718
Research Number: NCW: 718
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH
Provenance(Sotheby's, New York, NY, lot no. 282, May 29, 1986); Museum of Western Art, Denver, CO; Foxley Cattle Corp., 1992; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM)
Exhibition HistoryDenver, CO, 1989, p. 88, color illustration p. 89
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 294; "Joslyn News," (publication of the Joslyn Art Museum), May/June 1995, illustration p. 4; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.38, p. 649; D. B. Dowd, "Nostalgia Illustrated: N. C. Wyeth, Advertising, and American Cultural History," in Jessica May and Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives" (Brandywine River Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, 2019), p. 79, fig. 15
Curatorial RemarksThis was the second advertising image the artist did for the Fisk Rubber Company. "To-day in blows a man from N.Y. with my Fisk tire sketch which was OK'd by "the powers that be" in Springfield and they fairly pleaded with me to get the thing completed by next Wednesday!!!" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, dated Feb. 27, 1919, Wyeth Family Archives). Wyeth was paid a lucrative $1350.00 for the picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the Joslyn Art Museum