Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Summer. "Hush"
Alternate Title(s):Summer
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1909
Dimensions:
33 1/2 × 30 in. (85.1 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.92
Research Number: NCW: 92
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / 1909; lower left: INSCRIBED TO / CLARA and EDWIN / on their / WEDDING DAY / DEC. 25, 1913
ProvenanceThe artist; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Wyeth, 1913; Mrs. Edwin Wyeth, to 1988; [?]; (Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY, May 1991); Collection of John Edward Dell, to August, 1995; [?]; Private collection, NY, to 2008; [Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, April, 2008]
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1910, no. 798 on p. 51, as "Summer"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 12; Greenville, DE, 1995; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 312, 313; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 275, illustration in b/w p. 62; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 64; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.284, p. 200
Curatorial RemarksAt this point in his life, observation from nature was very important to the artist. Upon his return from a brief visit to Needham, Wyeth wrote to his mother in July 1909, "Today I started at work in the studio and have had a very successful day. Layed in the last Indian picture "Summer," with sky effect that Babe and I saw at the bridge...." Later in the letter, Wyeth mentions that one of the highlights of his visit home had been a trip to Concord, so the reference to "the bridge" becomes clear.
This painting was a gift from the artist to his brother Edwin and to Clara Louise Moeller whom Edwin married on Dec. 25, 1913.
This painting was a gift from the artist to his brother Edwin and to Clara Louise Moeller whom Edwin married on Dec. 25, 1913.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Bill DiLillo, 6/2002