untitled (nude male figure, standing)

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

untitled (nude male figure, standing)

Medium: Charcoal or pencil on paper
Date: 1900
Dimensions:
23 1/2 × 18 in. (59.7 × 45.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1532
Research Number: NCW: 1532
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth / '00
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, to 1972; (Nicholas Wyeth); Aldis Brown, New York, NY, July, 1972; (?); by 2022, Collection of Dan Ostermiller
Exhibition HistoryCooperstown, NY, Fenimore Art Museum, "Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies," May 7-September 5, 2022.
References Victoria Browning Wyeth, Drawn From Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies (Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2022), p. 56
Curatorial RemarksThis drawing is representative of the type of work the artist did as a student before joining the Howard Pyle School. It could have been done during Wyeth's spring semester at Massachusetts Normal Art School (1900) for a class described as "Model, charcoal," or done at the Eric Pape School during the fall 1900 term.
The drawing was one of 16 sold by Nicholas Wyeth in July 1972 to Aldis Brown of New York. Of the 16 drawings, 7 were typical academic figure studies, and may have been done in the same class. See NCW 1475, 1528, 1529, 1561, 1563, and 1567.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from art work