Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Corn Husker
Alternate Title(s):Corn Harvest in Hill Country, composition drawing; The Husker, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1945
Dimensions:
47 × 36 in. (119.4 × 91.4 cm)
Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
Accession number: SUPP2000.1569
Research Number: NCW: 1569
InscribedWithin image at lower left: SKETCH (underlined) / N. C. WYETH (underlined); below image: CORN HUSKER
Provenance(Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY, Oct. 22, 1969, lot no. 61); Berkshire Bank and Trust Company, to 1983
Exhibition HistoryStockbridge, MA, The Old Corner House, "The Illustrator's Moment / Works by Abbey, Fogarty, Leyendecker, Pyle, Rackam, N. C. Wyeth," July 1- Oct. 31, 1978, p. 94, b/w illustration p. 95
Curatorial RemarksThis is a preliminary, but not the final, composition drawing for "Corn Harvest in the Hill Country," (NCW 815), a commission from Clarence Poe of Progressive Farmer Magazine for a cover illustration. The artist altered the composition in the second drawing (NCW 2113) to show the horse heads beyond the foreground figure.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from original artwork