Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (Indian cleaning a game bird)
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
25 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (64.8 × 41.3 cm)
Courtesy of Wells Fargo
Accession number: SUPP2000.1526
Research Number: NCW: 1526
InscribedLower right: N. C. W. / 1906
Provenance(?); (Sotheby's, New York, New York, Sept. 24, 1970, lot no. 2); Douglas Allen, Jr. through at least 1972; (Brandywine Galleries, Ltd., Albuquerque, NM, in 1973); James Stuart Douglas of Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Company; (by corporate merger) First National Bank of Arizona, 1975-?; (by corporate merger) First Interstate Bank of Arizona
Exhibition HistoryTucson, AZ, First National Bank of Arizona, "Tucson Bicentennial Commeration," 20 Aug.-19 Sept. 1975; Sun City, AZ, Sun Cities Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth, Remington, and Russell," 10 Jan.-3 Feb. 1988
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illus. b/w p. 58;
Curatorial RemarksThis work may have been a preliminary study for an image related to "The Indian In His Solitude" series. It is approximately the same size as a stylistically similar drawing for "The Silent Burial, " NCW 2230.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Craig Smith, 6/2003