Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Turkey Hunters, presentation painting
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
11 5/8 × 36 3/8 in. (29.5 × 92.4 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Lois Zimmerman Wilcox, 2004
Accession number: 2004.11
Research Number: NCW: 2104
InscribedLower right in pencil: SKETCH / N. C. Wyeth (underlined); on reverse of panel in pencil: J. J. ZIMMERMAN (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to John J. Zimmerman (architect working on Metropolitan Life commission), ca. 1941; Lois Zimmerman Wilcox, Asheville, NC, to 2004
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.61, p. 626
Curatorial RemarksThis is the artist's presentation painting for NCW 443, one of the Metropolitan Life murals. NCW 2663 (Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2019.12) is a composition drawing. Lantern slides (NCWS.95.1825.323-333, BRMA, Annenberg Research Center) were made from an outline drawing which is lost.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2004