Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The courier of the air
Alternate Title(s):The Flight of the Bird Messenger
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Diamond M Fine Art Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University
Accession number: SUPP2000.325
Research Number: NCW: 325
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / © C.S.S
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, # B14176; Mr. J. P. Smith, New York, NY; (?); (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, NY, 1957); Diamond M Foundation, TX to 1993
Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn, NY, 1920, no. 24, as "The Flight of the Bird Messenger"; Philadelphia, PA, 1921; Fort Worth, TX, Fort Worth Art Center, 1958; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 18; Midland, TX, Museum of the Southwest, "The Wyeth Family," 8 Jan. 8 - Feb. 6, 1973; Houston, TX, 1980; San Angelo, TX, 1993; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 14; Lubbock, TX, 1999
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.719, p. 370
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Museum of Texas Tech University