Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Ballad of Robin Hood, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1937
Dimensions:
34 1/2 × 28 in. (87.6 × 71.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1361
Research Number: NCW: 1361
InscribedLower right: To Edmund Stevens / with all good wishes / from N. C. Wyeth / Port Clyde, Me. 1937; in lower left: Composition Sketch / NCW / (possibly) N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Edmund Walker Stevens, 1937; (?); (Christie's, New York, NY, March 20, 1987, lot no. 119); Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen; (Schoonover Studios, Wilmington, DE, 2005)
Exhibition HistoryLititz, PA, 1995
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.80) made from this drawing which the artist used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel. The recipient of the drawing was an art director at Ginn & Company.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Courtesy of John Schoonover