Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
hand studies (one hand gripping gun butt; one hand gripping pole)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: not dated
Dimensions:
approximately 8 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (21.6 × 26.7 cm)
Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen
Accession number: SUPP2000.1509
Research Number: NCW: 1509
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN; (Christie's, New York, NY, April 7, 1982, lot no. 191);
Exhibition HistoryLititz, PA, Millport Museum, "American Art & Illustration," May 13-15, 1988
Curatorial RemarksThe drawing was one of eleven sold as one lot at Christie's in 1982. The lot was accompanied by this comment in the catalogue: "In a letter dated July 13, 1977, Frank Fowler, Andrew Wyeth's representative, explains that these drawings were part of a bound scrap-book put together by Andrew Wyeth for his mother."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:scanned from 1982 polaroid