Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (sketch of a buffalo hunt)
Alternate Title(s):Buffalo Hunt; Buffalo Hunt (The Thundering Herd)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1905
Dimensions:
20 1/16 × 30 1/16 in. (51 × 76.4 cm)
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gift of Amanda Berls, 1978.232
Accession number: SUPP2000.447
Research Number: NCW: 447
InscribedLower left: SKETCH (underlined); center bottom: TO STIMSON (underlined) / CONVERS WYETH; on reverse, Coe Kerr Gallery label: Buffalo Hunt / oil / 21 x 30
ProvenanceThe artist; Stimson Wyeth, Needham, MA; (?); Collection of Louis Schapiro, Boston, MA; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1950-1967; (Castellane Gallery, New York, 1967); Private collection; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY); Collection of Amanda K. Berls, New York, NY, 1975 - 1978
Exhibition HistoryCoe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, "A Tribute to American Realism, The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion," Jan. 7-31, 1976, illustration, unpaginated
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.120, p. 138
Curatorial RemarksThis painting is marked as a sketch in the artist's hand, and does not directly relate to other known oil paintings. Old accession records at the Rose Art Museum indicate that "The Thundering Herd" may have been written on the stretcher. The subject and style of the work are close to a Dec. 1905 Saturday Evening Post cover (NCW 1468), which provides the authority for dating.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting