Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Burial of Uncas "The boy has left us for a time; but, Sagamore, you are not alone"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
40 × 31 in. (101.6 × 78.7 cm)
Courtesy of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis.
Accession number: SUPP2000.1023
Research Number: NCW: 1023
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); label fragment on reverse: (missing)TED PICTURE IS / (missing)HARLES SCRIBNE(missing) / BE RETURNED TO THE / (missing)ITION / from / SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE; label fragment on reverse: CORNER BOOK STO(missing) / 27 BROMFIELD ST. / BOSTON, MAS / ; label fragment on reverse: (missing)ADERER CO. / ART SHOP; painted on stretcher: A5996
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (?); (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, ca. 1959-1965); (?); (Nancy Crook International Art Gallery, El Paso, TX, 1973); Collection of Harrison Eiteljorg, 1973-1987
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1920(3), no. 684; circulated with an exhibition of work by the Philadelphia Water Color Club, organized by the American Federation of the Arts, on view at the Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, during Feb. 1921; New York, NY, 1957, no. 64; Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 69;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 202; Treasures of the American West: Selections from the Collection of Harrison Eiteljorg (New York: 1981), illustration p. 125; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.762, p. 389
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and marked an edition published by A. L. Burt (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4334).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:© Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art