Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Parkman Outfit. Henry Chatillon, Guide and Hunter.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925
Dimensions:
40 1/2 × 29 1/8 in. (102.9 × 74 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.315
Research Number: NCW: 315
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1953; (Brandywine Galleries, Albuquerque, NM, 1953); Lewis W. Douglas, for Southern Arizona Bank and Trust, Phoenix, AZ, 1953 - 1975; (by corporate merger) First National Bank of Arizona; (by corporate merger) First Interstate Bank of Arizona
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 3, illus. in color; Tucson, AZ, Tucson Art Center, "Art Collected by Banks in Arizona," Oct. 1-30, 1966, no. 19; Tucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commemoration," 20 Aug. 20 - Sept. 19, 1975; Tucson Museum of Art, "Arizona Collects the West," Oct. 5 - Dec. 12, 1983; Sun City, AZ, Sun Cities Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth, Remington, and Russell," Jan.10 - 3 Feb. 1988
References
Anton Kamp, "N. C. Wyeth, Painter and Illustrator," The Artgum, vol. IV, no. 4 (April 1926), illus. p. 5; Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 27; Henry Pitz, "N. C. Wyeth," American Heritage Magazine, vol. XVI, no. 6 (October 1965), illus. p. 47; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 214, illus. in color p. 116; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth, (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illus. in color, p. 38; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1006, p. 481
Curatorial RemarksIn a publisher's preface dated July 8, 1925 and printed in the Wyeth / Remington edition, the artist is quoted as saying, "This title has been much on my mind for several years....'The Oregon Trail' has always been deep in my blood. I feel very much stirred to interpret my dreams into pictures." Wyeth was keenly aware that his ancestor Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856) had led several expeditions to the American northwest in the 1830s.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003