Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (blacksmith for Pierce-Arrow advertisement)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Northern Arizona University Art Museum,
Present location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.875
Research Number: NCW: 875
Inscribedalong bottom edge at center (on anvil): N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceMrs. Frank Schive, Sedona, AZ by 1978; Mrs. George F. Wales, to 1980
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 295; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.30, p. 646
Curatorial RemarksThe picture is dated by a reference in a letter to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth ("It's 6:30 and the children...," and dated in another hand Aug. 28, 1916, Wyeth Family Archives). A month later he wrote that the ad "netted me a sum I could in no justice to my bigger ambitions refuse" (NCW to Sidney M. Chase, "Your expostulation was warranted" and dated in another hand Sept. 8, 1916, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting