Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Pyle's Barn
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1919
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (63.8 × 76.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.114
Research Number: NCW: 114
InscribedLower left (not in NCW's hand): N. C. WYETH / (illegible); on top stretcher bar, gummed label with red border, inscribed in pen and ink: WYETH; All four stretcher keys are marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.
ProvenanceThe artist; Stimson Wyeth; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 47; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 33; Chadds Ford, PA, 1992; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 57
References
Color illustration fig. 303, p. 238, William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.131, p. 742
Curatorial RemarksThis barn was a favorite motif of the artist and part of the property he rented from 1908 -1911.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Dennis Griggs, 10/2000