Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Where are you from, little man?"
Alternate Title(s):Chad and the Colonel
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1930 / 1931
Dimensions:
34 1/8 × 25 in. (86.7 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.283
Research Number: NCW: 283
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); printed label tacked to top stretcher: WHERE ARE YOU FROM, LITTLE MAN? / ("The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" by John Fox, Jr. / Charles Scribner's Sons); label tacked to top stretcher, in the artist's hand: "CHAD and the / Colonel" / from the LITTLE SHEPHERD / of KINGDOM COME / (one illegible line); (Knoedler's) label: No. 54823; tacked to top stretcher bar, printed label fragment: OLUMBUS
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (with Knoedler's, NY, 9/1956-11/1968, no. 54823); Private collection, Greenwich, CT, 1972-1995; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1995); Mr. and Mrs. George P. Caulkins, Jr., Denver, CO, 1995 - 2005
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 66; Richmond, VA, 1958; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 13; New York, NY, 1995, no. 26; Greenville, DE, 1995, exhibition brochure illustration in color, no numbers
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 33, as "Chadd (sic) and the Colonel"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 205; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1154, p. 532
Curatorial RemarksThe N. C. Wyeth House/Studio library includes a 1903 edition of this title (NCWS.95.655), illustrated by F. C. Yohn. The copy contains notations Wyeth made as he planned his own edition. This book was not intended as one of the holiday gift books that Wyeth had done earlier for Scribner's. A letter to the artist from Arthur H. Scribner (Aug. 27, 1930), makes it clear that the publishers hoped to have this book out in May or June, 1931 (Scribner's Archives, Princeton University Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:©James O. Milmoe, 2003