Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Norsemen Sight America's Shores
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.546
Research Number: NCW: 546
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel: Renaissance Panel label, no. 1121, dated 8/9/42; written on label: Norsemen sight / America's shores. / # 10; label adhered to reverse of panel: The Rosenbach Galleries / 1320 Walnut Street / Phila., Pa.
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, to 1944; gift to the U. S. Naval Academy
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: U. S. Naval Academy Museum, 1961), no. 222, p. 13; American History Illustrated, (Jan. 1969), b/w illustration ps. 4-5; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 291; "Minnesota's Vikings," Roger Pinckney, American History, vol. XXX, no. 6 (Jan. 1996), color illustration (detail), p. 22; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.158, p. 690-691
Curatorial RemarksExtant are the composition drawing for this image (NCW 1859); a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.142, Brandywine River Museum) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel; and an archival photograph of the painting annotated in the artist's hand, "Eric the Red / off the islands of Newfoundland" (Brandywine River Museum library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg R. Staley, 1/2006