Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Title unknown (Chadds Ford meadow, with cows and distant buildings)
Alternate Title(s):Chadds Ford Meadow with Wyeth Home in Background
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
31 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (80 × 85.1 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1112
Research Number: NCW: 1112
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / 1923
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. William Shewell Ellis, Moylan, PA; descended in family; (T. R. O'Farrell Auction, Westminster, MD, May 1992); (American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, to 1999, and reproduced as August image in "American Illustrators Gallery 1993 Calendar"); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, 1999 - 2005
Exhibition HistoryJapan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, no. 21 p. 126, illustration in color p. 42, as "Chadds Ford Meadow with Wyeth Home in Background"; Wilmington, DE, 2007; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, p. 89; Portland, OR, Portland Museum of Art, "The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works form the Bank of America Collection," Oct. 7, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.149, p. 747-748
Curatorial RemarksThe first owner of this painting, William Shewell Ellis, was a portrait photographer who took photographs of the artist in the mid-teens. (A photo-portrait by Ellis is reproduced on the back cover of David Michaelis's 1998 biography, although erroneously attributed to Sanborn Studios.) There is no authority for the alternate title; the buildings depicted are not the Wyeth homestead.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/1999