Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
I had half seen how he had rested his elbow on the hedge and carried his head to one side when he fired that first shot.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Destroyed Oct. 1916
Accession number: SUPP2000.1990
Research Number: NCW: 1990
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 11 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1916; painting destroyed Oct. 27, 1916
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 381; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.362, p. 236
Curatorial RemarksAccording to Scribner's records, this painting was an oil on canvas destroyed on Oct. 27, 1916 (Brandywine River Museum Library, Scribner's archive, # 28608).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Web: scan by BRM staff; Publication: Rick Echelmeyer, 7/11/2006