Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Cutting out."
Alternate Title(s):Colorado, Trouble with the Longhorns; Trouble with the Longhorns
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
38 × 25 7/8 in. (96.5 × 65.7 cm)
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Gift of John M. Schiff, 45.83
Accession number: SUPP2000.380
Research Number: NCW: 380
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / COLO. -1904- label adhered to verso: COE KERR GALLERY / 49 EAST 82nd STREET / NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); John M. Schiff, New York, NY, to 1983
Exhibition HistoryCody, WY, Whitney Gallery, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Special Exhibition Opening Season, June 1 - Oct. 1, 1969, no. 92, n.p., as "Trouble with the Longhorns"; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 12, 57, and plate no. 3, as "Colorado, Trouble with the Longhorns"; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, "Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West," Nov. 3, 2013-April 13, 2014, Plate no. 151, p. 94;
References
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from Wilmington, DE, newspaper; Philip Ashton Rollins, Jinglebob (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930), illustration f. p. 32; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 274, b/w illustration p. 41; Walt and Roger Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980 (New York: Madison Square Press, Inc., 1984), color illustration p. 79; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), b/w illustration p. 125; Sarah E. Boehme, "N. C. Wyeth, From the Hashknife to the Palette Knife," Points West (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Fall, 2002), cover illustration; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.115, p. 137
Curatorial RemarksThis picture was undoubtedly painted in the artist's Wilmington studio in 1905. The inscription below the signature references Wyeth's inspiration, his 1904 trip to Colorado.
The image appeared in the November 1905 issue of Scribner's with an editorial note announcing the forthcoming publication of Wyeth's article "A Day with the Round-Up"and the accompanying pictures. Wyeth credited this announcement with an increase in commissions that were offered him during the next month, "The Scribner announcement did it--that little "Cutting Out" reproduction...." (see NCW to Carloyn Bockius, "My own dear Carolyn, My what a crowd!..." dated in another hand Dec. 23, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
The image appeared in the November 1905 issue of Scribner's with an editorial note announcing the forthcoming publication of Wyeth's article "A Day with the Round-Up"and the accompanying pictures. Wyeth credited this announcement with an increase in commissions that were offered him during the next month, "The Scribner announcement did it--that little "Cutting Out" reproduction...." (see NCW to Carloyn Bockius, "My own dear Carolyn, My what a crowd!..." dated in another hand Dec. 23, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
"Wilmington Artists in the March Magazines," an undated (but March 1906 by context) and unattributed article from a Wilmington, DE, newspaper, states that "The full-page illustrations in color are in his best style and their originals have been sold to a New York collector."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography of painting