Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
On the Way to the Front in '76
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 26 1/2 in. (101.6 × 67.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1717
Research Number: NCW: 1717
InscribedLabel adhered to reverse of stretcher: label of: HADERER CO. / ART SHOP / PICTURE FRAMING / ARTIST SUPPLIES / 209 W. 9th ST. / WILMINGTON, DEL.
ProvenanceLeroy Jefferson Weed, New York, NY; descended in family
References
Nathaniel W. Stephenson and Martha Tucker, A School History of the United States (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1924), frontispiece illustration; Thomas B. Lawler, Standard History of America (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1933), illustration f.p. 220; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 209, 233, 236; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.705, p. 364
Curatorial Remarks"I am enclosing two proofs of recent work done for the Ginn Company. You will recognize the "Headquarters" in the "Revoluntionary Days" picture" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, July 29, 1918, Wyeth Family Archives). The building to which Wyeth referred was Washington's headquarters during the Battle of Brandywine, a building which burned in 1931 and was subsequently reconstructed to its late 18th-century appearance. The first owner, Leroy Jefferson Weed, was an employee of Ginn & Co.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Neal Keach, Blair & Webber Photography, 8/5/2006