Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The picket guard
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
approximately 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Destroyed by fire, 1950
Accession number: SUPP2000.1430
Research Number: NCW: 1430
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Michael F. Sweeney for The Hill School, 1923
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 212; "Sweeney's Legacy," Hill (The Hill School Bulletin), Sept. 1980; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.903, p. 436, 437
Curatorial RemarksThe unillustrated edition of Poems of American Patriotism that the artist read and annotated in preparation for this commission is in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum (NCWS.95.157)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/20/2006