Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I remember," writes Buffalo Bill, "the next day father began trading with the Indians, who were so pleased over the bargins we offered that they sent their friends back to us after they cantered away."
Alternate Title(s):Trading with the Indians
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.712
Research Number: NCW: 712
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Mary E. Glancy, ca. 1917 - ca. 1931; (?); Private collection, early 1930s and descended in family
Exhibition History(exhibited in New York, NY, fall of 1917)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 201, 260; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.642, p. 336
Curatorial Remarks"Tell Miss Glancy that I've decided to send her a canvas called "Trading with the Indians" which is now on exhibition in N.Y." (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Chadds Ford / Friday, "Although I've written a long letter to Babe..." and dated in another hand Sept. 21, 1917, Wyeth Family Archives). Mary E. Glancy (d. 1931) was the artist's grammar school teacher in Needham, MA.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from artwork
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