untitled (view of tree trunk in field setting)

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

untitled (view of tree trunk in field setting)

Alternate Title(s):Chadds Ford Landscape; Brandywine Landscape; Brandywine (Chadds Ford) Landscape
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1917 / 1921
Dimensions:
16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Private collection, Chattanooga, TN
Accession number: SUPP2000.1419
Research Number: NCW: 1419
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (not in NCW's hand); on reverse of stretcher: "Period 1918-1922"
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1977
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers as "Brandywine (Chadds Ford) Landscape"
References Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.122, p. 738
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was photographed in 1969, one of approximately 3 dozen paintings from the artist's studio that had been stored unstretched (Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonné files). The painting was unsigned at that time.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Madden, 8/2004