Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He never caught a thing and he ruined Jon's reputation as a fisherman
Alternate Title(s):Along the Brandywine; The Golden Years
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
47 1/4 × 38 in. (120 × 96.5 cm)
Collection of the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.1407
Research Number: NCW: 1407
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1913
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 9/50; (?); (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1967, as "Along the Brandywine" and "The Golden Years"); Private collection, Miami, FL; (Christie's, New York, NY, March 13, 1996, lot no. 62); (Santa Fe Art Auction, Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 8, 1997, lot no. 203); (Gerald Peters Gallery, 1998); Forbes Magazine Collection, 1998-2001; (Christie's, New York, NY, Nov. 29, 2001, lot no. 152); Cawley Family Collection, Wilmington, DE; (Christie's, New York, NY, Dec. 5, 2002, lot no. 209)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Forbes Magazine Galleries, "200 Years of American Art from the Forbes Magazine Collection", May - Sept. 1999, no. 23
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 73; Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 462; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 210; C. Forbes, "The Forbes Magazine Collection," American Art Review, June 1999, illus. p. 134; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.479, p. 278
Curatorial RemarksThe publisher, Bobbs-Merrill, suggested Wyeth's name to John Luther Long; the letter and Long's agreement are part of the Bobbs-Merrill archives held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. In the John Luther Long collection at the Harry Ransom Center, Universtiy of Texas at Austin, there is no archival material that suggests Wyeth and Long corresponded about the illustrations.
The set of illustrations for "War" was painted in the "Tank House studio" on the Wyeth property in Needham during the winter of 1912-1913 (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, May 15, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives).
The set of illustrations for "War" was painted in the "Tank House studio" on the Wyeth property in Needham during the winter of 1912-1913 (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, May 15, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Christie's, New York, 2002