Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Fight in the Fore-top
At the word three, they poured a volley into the mizzentop; pale, smoke-veiled faces withered away before it, but a volley answered them
Alternate Title(s):The Fight in the Foretop
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
40 1/4 × 32 3/8 in. (102.2 × 82.2 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1258
Research Number: NCW: 1258
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; private collection and descended in family; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1992); Collection of John Edward Dell, 1992 - 1995; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1995)
Exhibition HistoryLubbock, TX, 1999; Tyler, TX, Tyler Museum of Art, "The Wyeths Across Texas," no. 11, p. 62, illus. p. 63;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Colleted Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 199; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 57; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1071, p. 505
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission and marked with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239). The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection includes a detailed drawing (NCW 1865) of a foretop, which might have been done in preparation for this painting.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Ashley Slade, 11/2002