Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Bringing in the Ears, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1942
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (69.9 × 82.6 cm)
R. Shenkin, West Chester, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.1375
Research Number: NCW: 1375
InscribedLower right below image: ROUGH SKETCH BY N. C. WYETH
ProvenancePrivate collection, West Chester, PA, to 2019; [New York, NY, Sotheby's, May 21, 2019, lot no. 26; did not sell]
Curatorial RemarksThis drawing is referred to as a "black and white comprehensive" in correspondence between Wyeth and his agent American Artist Company (Wyeth Family Archives). The commission for Minnesota Valley Canning Company was handled through the Leo Burnett Company of Chicago; the completed painting is NCW 243.
The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide of this composition drawing (NCWS.95.1825.193), and a lantern slide of a tracing of an alternative composition (NCWS.95.1825.194) with the inscription below:TRACED BY R (H or M) & (one illegible word). This tracing is referred to in a letter dated Feb. 19, 1942, that Wyeth received from American Artists Company (Wyeth Family Archives); it apparently had correction notations in the margin.
The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide of this composition drawing (NCWS.95.1825.193), and a lantern slide of a tracing of an alternative composition (NCWS.95.1825.194) with the inscription below:TRACED BY R (H or M) & (one illegible word). This tracing is referred to in a letter dated Feb. 19, 1942, that Wyeth received from American Artists Company (Wyeth Family Archives); it apparently had correction notations in the margin.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:from lantern slide of drawing
Photo Credit:Collection Brandywine River Museum