Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
War
Alternate Title(s):The Drums of the 47th, illustration for dust-jacket
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
47 1/2 × 38 1/4 in. (120.7 × 97.2 cm)
Private collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.148
Research Number: NCW: 148
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 121; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(2); Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 28, color illustration p. 95; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Romance in Conflict, N. C. Wyeth's Civil War Paintings," Jan. 22-March 20, 2011; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
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, Inc., 1972), p. 210; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.482, p. 279
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.
According to a letter the artist wrote his mother on May 15, 1914, this painting and the others for this book title were painted during the winter of 1912-1913 in the "Tank House Studio" in Needham, MA (Betsy James Wyeth, ed., p. 642)
According to a letter the artist wrote his mother on May 15, 1914, this painting and the others for this book title were painted during the winter of 1912-1913 in the "Tank House Studio" in Needham, MA (Betsy James Wyeth, ed., p. 642)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Ralston, www.pralston.com