Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Where there had been no tree, now there was a tree. It changed the plain
Alternate Title(s):The Homesteader; Pioneer Woman, Oklahoma; Pioneer Widow, Oklahoma
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1930
Dimensions:
36 3/8 × 40 1/8 in. (92.4 × 101.9 cm)
Purchased with funds donated by the Paul Ross Charitable Foundation,
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas.
Accession number: SUPP2000.725
Research Number: NCW: 725
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, 1957-1964, # 54852, as "Pioneer Widow, Oklahoma"); Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler); (?); (American Illustrators Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1979); (Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, 1981, as "The Homesteader")
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 45, as "Pioneer Woman, Oklahoma"
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 45, as "Pioneer Widow, Oklahoma"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 263; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1167, p. 536; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth, American Regionalist" in Rural Modern, American Art Beyond the City (NY: Rizzoli, 2016), p. 168, illus. in color, p. 169;
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork