Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The savage gave the yell...and came bounding across the open ground, flourishing a tomahawk.
Alternate Title(s):The savage gave a yell and came bounding across the open ground flourishing a tomahawk; The savage gave a yell and came bounding
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1925
Dimensions:
40 3/8 × 32 1/2 in. (102.6 × 82.6 cm)
Collection of the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.256
Research Number: NCW: 256
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist (with Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, until Oct. 1927); Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1956; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1966, no. CA4509); Private collection, Suffield, CT, and descended in family; (?); (Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL, 1991); Collection of John F. Eulich, Dallas, TX; (Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 1998, lot no. 88); (Somerville/Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, Jan. 1999]; (American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 2000)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 55, as "The savage gave a yell and came bounding across the open ground flourishing a tomahawk"; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers, as "The savage gave a yell and came bounding"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Stockbridge, MA, Old Corner House, "The Illustrator's Moment, Works by Abbey, Fogarty, Leyendecker, Pyle, Rackham, N. C. Wyeth," July 1- Oct. 31, 1978, no. 31 p. 92, illus. in b/w p. 93; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, "The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier," March 17 - June 12, 1994 (and other venues), illus. p. 43, as "The Deerslayer"
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 1; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 202; Rick Stewart and Don Hedgpeth, The American West, Legendary Artists of the Frontier (Hawthorne Publishing Company, 1986); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.996, p. 477
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of the edition Wyeth read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.189).
In an article for The English Journal, Ruth Teuscher noted that Wyeth's illustrations for some of the classics "have great pictorial beauty aside from their value as illustrations." A footnote included the information that original paintings for The Deerslayer could be purchased from the artist through Scribner's for "about $500." (Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 608-609 ).
In an article for The English Journal, Ruth Teuscher noted that Wyeth's illustrations for some of the classics "have great pictorial beauty aside from their value as illustrations." A footnote included the information that original paintings for The Deerslayer could be purchased from the artist through Scribner's for "about $500." (Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 608-609 ).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Sotheby's, New York