Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Two or three times one of the mares fell in the drifts, and nothing but the courage bred into them in the blue-grass fields of Kentucky saved us from stalling out in that fearful moving flood of snow
Alternate Title(s):That fearful moving flood of wind and frost and snow; A Snow Scene on the Prairie
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
40 3/4 × 30 1/4 in. (103.5 × 76.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.694
Research Number: NCW: 694
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of canvas left of center: _____ 7 1/2 _____ ; on reverse of canvas at right: Vandermark's Folly; at upper right: Mr. Currie; at upper left: 13350 / 170110; notations on stretcher: Property of Barton W. Currie; also on stretcher: black and white / Reduce to fill / A (circled) and insert
ProvenanceBarton W. Currie
References
Herbert Quick, One Man's Life (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1925), illus. in b/w f. p. 118, as "A Snow Scene on the Prairie"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 262; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.892, p. 432, 433
Curatorial RemarksThe first owner of the painting, Barton W. Currie, was an editor at Ladies' Home Journal.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Bruce Alexander, photographer, 3/2003