Deer and Stream

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Deer and Stream

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1945
Dimensions:
108 × 156 in. (274.3 × 396.2 cm)
Collection of MetLife, New York
Accession number: SUPP2000.439
Research Number: NCW: 439
ProvenanceCommissioned from NCW by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1985, no. 4
References Robert San Souci, N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991), color illustration (unpaginated); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.75, p. 632, 633
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds lantern slides made from a drawing in simple outline of this composition (NCWS.95.418-424), and extensive correspondence between the artist and the architect Arthur O. Angilly which touches on all phases of the commission.
In the mid-1980s, the MetLife murals were removed from the walls of their original location at One Madison Avenue, New York, and placed on strainers. MetLife now occupies new corporate headquarters on Bryant Park, but this mural remains in the Madison Avenue building.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Photo by: Malcolm Varon, NYC, copyright © 2007