Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Gunning for Partridge
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1937
Dimensions:
30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Gerald L. Pearson
Accession number: SUPP2000.513
Research Number: NCW: 513
InscribedScratched into ground at lower left: TO HILDA / N. C. WYETH; adhered to reverse, Renaissance Panel label no. 602, dated 11/26/37
ProvenanceThe artist to at least 10/39; gift to "Hilda," probably Hildegard Bockius; (?); (Vose Galleries, Boston, MA, 1970); (Arrowsmith Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, 1973);
Exhibition HistoryPortland, ME, 1938
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1229, p. 558-559
Curatorial RemarksThis subject was not part of the original illustrative plan for Trending into Maine (N. C. Wyeth to A. R. McIntyre, March 23, 1936), but did appear in a revised plan that the artist made in Oct. 1937 after reading "a more completed mosaic of Maine" which Roberts had sent to him (NCW to Kenneth Roberts, Oct. 4, 1937, both letters, Dartmouth College Library). The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.130) of the composition drawing, used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Marvin Burke, 11/2001