Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I saw his horse jump back, dodgin' a rattlesnake or somethin' "
Alternate Title(s):Dodgin' a Rattler; Dodging the Rattlesnake
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
36 × 23 3/4 in. (91.4 × 60.3 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.714
Research Number: NCW: 714
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -05-; and then faintly to the left: N. C. W (with an underline but rest of name is overpainted) / -05-
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1953; (Brandywine Galleries, Albuquerque, NM, 1953); Lewis W. Douglas, for Southern Arizona Bank and Trust, Phoenix, AZ, 1953-1975; (by corporate merger) First National Bank of Arizona; (by corporate merger) First Interstate Bank of Arizona
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 30, as "Dodgin' a Rattler"; Tucson, AZ, Tucson Art Center, "Western Art in Arizona Collections," 18 Feb.-18 March 1973, as "Dodging the Rattlesnake"; Tucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commemoration," 20 Aug.-19 Sept. 1975; Tucson, AZ, Tucson Museum of Art, "Arizona Collects the West," 5 Oct.-12 Dec. 1983; Sun City, AZ, Sun Cities Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth, Remington and Russell," 10 Jan.-3 Feb. 1988
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 238, 266, b/w illustration p. 35; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration p. 26; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.62, p. 120
Curatorial RemarksThis was one of three pictures Wyeth did between November 27, 1905 and Jan. 7, 1906, for the second installment of a three part commission for McClure's Magazine. This painting must have been the first of the three paintings completed, since the other two are dated 1906.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003