Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The lee of the grub-wagon.
Alternate Title(s):The Chuckwagon; The Cottonwood Camp
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
38 × 26 in. (96.5 × 66 cm)
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Gift of John M. Schiff, 46.83
Accession number: SUPP2000.620
Research Number: NCW: 620
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / COLORADO / -1904- ; label adhered to verso: COE KERR GALLERY / 49 EAST 82nd STREET / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028
ProvenanceThe artist; [?]; John M. Schiff, New York, NY
Exhibition HistoryCody, WY, Whitney Gallery, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Special Exhibition Opening Season, June 1 - Oct. 1, 1969, "no. 89-94 Series of six paintings of Scenes from a Cow Camp," n.p.; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57 and plate 5 as "Cottonwood Camp"; Marietta, GA, 1998, no numbers, color illustration, unpaginated
References
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from Wilmington, DE, newspaper; Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), illustration f. p. 218 as "The Chuckwagon"; Staff of the Wellington (TX) Leader, A History of Collingsworth County (Wellington, TX: Leader Printing Co., 1925), frontispiece illustration; Philip Ashton Rollins, Jinglebob (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930), endpaper illustration; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 236, 274, b/w illustration p. 38; Sarah E. Boehme, "N. C. Wyeth, From the Hashknife to the Palette Knife," Points West (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Fall, 2002), p. 10; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.111, p. 135
Curatorial RemarksThe artist painted "Around the Grub Wagon," a horizontal version of this subject, in Denver in1904 (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, Nov. 3, 1904, Wyeth Family Archives). For publication in Scribner's, the image was reworked in the Wilmington studio the following year to suit a vertical format.
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography of painting