Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Wallace's vision
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.172
Research Number: NCW: 172
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist (returned to him from Scribner's, 1/22/1923); Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1925; Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 38; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 56; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 105; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 48; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Japan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, illus. in color p. 41, no. 20 p. 126; New York, NY, 1995, no. 25; Greenville, DE, 1995; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 17; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 215; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.870, p. 426
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, Wyeth read an undated edition of The Scottish Chiefs published by Thomas D. Crowell Company, New York, illustrated with photographs of Scottish scenery (Brandywine River Museum NCWS.95.184). He also had in his studio library the 8 volume "Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments" pulished by Fullerton & Co. of Edinburgh (BRMA, NCWS.95.232.1-.8).
Wyeth was extremely concerned about the quality of the reproductions for this commission--he had generously used blue and green pigments throughout, difficult for printers to duplicate. For this commission, the plates were engraved by the Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping Company (see Scribner's cards, Brandywine River Museum of Art) and printed by Bowker (NCW to Joseph Hawley Chapin, dated "Tuesday morning, 6:15" probably June, 1921, Archives of Charles Scribner's, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library).
Wyeth was extremely concerned about the quality of the reproductions for this commission--he had generously used blue and green pigments throughout, difficult for printers to duplicate. For this commission, the plates were engraved by the Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping Company (see Scribner's cards, Brandywine River Museum of Art) and printed by Bowker (NCW to Joseph Hawley Chapin, dated "Tuesday morning, 6:15" probably June, 1921, Archives of Charles Scribner's, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:John L. Manning, 4/2005