Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Through the Mists, The Coming of the Huns, headpiece illustration
Alternate Title(s):Huns
Medium: Oil on canvas (black and white)
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1983
Research Number: NCW: 1983
InscribedLower right: N. C. W. (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to at least 1917
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 31, as "Huns"
References
Clarence Marsh Case, The Banner of the White Horse (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916), detail used as cover inlay in color; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.318, p. 215
Curatorial RemarksNCW wrote to his mother Dec. 27, 1909, "Was called to N.Y. Friday and met Conan Doyle. Am to paint three pictures to illustrate important writings of his to appear in Aug. Scribner's. He suggested I do them." The paintings NCW did, this and three others, appeared in issues dated Nov. and Dec. 2010 and Jan. 2011.
Association of this painting with the title "Huns" is made through the subject matter and a description in the (Wilmington, DE) Morning News, Nov. 20, 1912, "a small picture in black and white called 'Huns.' " The Scribner's catalogue card for this painting also identifies it as a black and white oil (card #27902, Scribner's Archive, Brandywine River Museum library); the artist may have added color after the first publication, since a detail of the image is reproduced in color as a cover in-lay for "The Banner of the White Horse."
Association of this painting with the title "Huns" is made through the subject matter and a description in the (Wilmington, DE) Morning News, Nov. 20, 1912, "a small picture in black and white called 'Huns.' " The Scribner's catalogue card for this painting also identifies it as a black and white oil (card #27902, Scribner's Archive, Brandywine River Museum library); the artist may have added color after the first publication, since a detail of the image is reproduced in color as a cover in-lay for "The Banner of the White Horse."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. Digital scan from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library); 2. Cover inlay of "The Banner of the White Horse" by Case, showing 1916 use
Photo Credit:1. Web: BRM staff, 11/2005; Publication: Rick Echelmeyer, digital photography from printed source, 7/11/2006; 2. BRM staff