Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Plains Herder.
Alternate Title(s):Shepherd of the Plains
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
36 1/2 × 28 1/8 in. (92.7 × 71.4 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.471
Research Number: NCW: 471
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 08
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (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. 1; Tucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commemoration," Aug. 20 - Sept. 19, 1975; Tucson, AZ, 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 - Feb. 3, 1988; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illus. in color on cover, cat. no. 34 on p. 82, p. 76
References
Winifred Kupper, The Golden Hoof (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1945), frontispiece; Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 57; Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 276; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 275, illus. b/w p. 47; James Duff, The Western World of N. C. Wyeth (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1980), p. 16; Rosemary Holusha, "The Douglas Art Collection," Arizona Highways Magazine, vol. 56, no. 11 (Nov. 1980), p. 39; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illus. in color p. 23; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.259, p. 190
Curatorial Remarks"Today, my work came fine (underlined), I practically finished my moon light of the herder and I know it ranks with my very best in illustration if not better" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "I wrote one letter Sat. evening...," and dated in another hand Oct. 19, 1908, Wyeth Family Archives).
NCW 149 is a drawing related to the figure in this painting.
NCW 149 is a drawing related to the figure in this painting.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, Photographer, 6/2003