Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/Captives When the pilot chosen for the task of guiding the canoe had taken his station, the whole band plunged again into the river, the vessel glided down the current and in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream./

Captives When the pilot chosen for the task of guiding the canoe had taken his station, the whole band plunged again into the river, the vessel glided down the current and in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Captives When the pilot chosen for the task of guiding the canoe had taken his station, the whole band plunged again into the river, the vessel glided down the current and in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
40 × 31 7/8 in. (101.6 × 81 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1299
Research Number: NCW: 1299
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); removed from frame or back of canvas and now adhered to backing board, remnants of label: 18th Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, 1920; removed from frame or back of canvas and now adhered to backing board, small label: A5995
ProvenanceMrs. N. C. Wyeth; Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1956; (Stephen Jackson Gallery, Centerville, DE); Private collection and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1920(3), no. 628, illustration in b/w (unpaginated); Indianapolis, IN, Herron Art Institute, (work of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, sponsored by the American Federation of Arts), Feb. 1921; New York, NY, 1957, no. 62

References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 202; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illustration in color p. 44; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), illustration in color after p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.751, p. 383
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and marked an edition published by A. L. Burt (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4334).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/2001