Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Think What Might Happen if It Was Not Protected by Those Hills!
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
approximately 30 1/4 x 38 in. (76.8 x 96.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1738
Research Number: NCW: 1738
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on stretcher across the top in unidentified hand: John Burroughs -- Philosopher / Moonlight -- Mirror Lake -- Colorado, 1909
ProvenanceThe artist: Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); (?); Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); Private collection, Mexico; (Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); private collection, New York, NY to 2011; (New York, NY, Christie's, Nov. 30, 2011, lot no. 92);
Exhibition HistoryPortland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 56
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.514, p. 290
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Dennis Griggs, 10/2000