Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
They trampled over me as they drove our men off the field.
Alternate Title(s):The Charge
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
30 3/16 × 40 5/8 in. (76.7 × 103.2 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.145
Research Number: NCW: 145
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); written on reverse of canvas: Vandemark's Folly / February 1922
ProvenanceThe artist; Anton Kamp, White Plains, NY, through at least 1957; (?); Collection of Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, DE, to 1970
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 38, as "The Charge"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 122; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(2); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Romance in Conflict, N. C. Wyeth's Civil War Paintings," Jan. 22-March 20, 2011
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 262; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.891, p. 432
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Schneck, Photographer, 2005