Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Montana" The Last Stand ( McClure's Magazine, cover illustration)
Alternate Title(s):The Outlaw; Montana
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
50 1/8 × 34 in. (127.3 × 86.4 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.106
Research Number: NCW: 106
InscribedLower left: N C WYETH (underlined) / 06
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, to 1996
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 46, as "The Outlaw"; Tucson, AZ, Tucson Art Center, "Art Collected by Banks in Arizona," Oct. 1-30, 1966, no. 20; Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, "Art of the Western Scene, 1880-1940," Nov. 14, 1969-March 15, 1970; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 33 as "The Outlaw"; Tucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizonia, "Tucson Bicentennial Commission," Aug. 20 - Sept. 19, 1975; Tucson, AZ, Tucson Museum of Art, "Southwest Legacy," Jan. 15 - March 25, 1976; 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), frontispiece illus. in b/w, p. 75, no. 23 on p. 81; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 117
References
frontispiece, McClure's Marketplace of the World (New York: The McClure Co., 1906); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 266, illus. in color p. 36; Peter Hassrick, The Way West, Art of Frontier America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1977), illus. b/w p. 157; Rosemary Holusha, "The Douglas Art Collection," Arizona Highways Magazine, vol. 56, no. 11 (Nov. 1980). p. 41; James Duff, The Western World of N. C. Wyeth (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1982), p. 14; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.136, p. 145
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003