Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Indian War Party.
Alternate Title(s):Indian Attack
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925
Dimensions:
38 5/8 × 28 in. (98.1 × 71.1 cm)
Museum of the American West Collection
Autry National Center, Los Angeles
Accession number: SUPP2000.526
Research Number: NCW: 526
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCollection of Western Art, Northern Natural Gas Company, Omaha, NB, by 1968; (by corporate merger) Enron Corporation, to 1988
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1930(1), no. 46; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57, illus. b/w plate 6 p. 25; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), no. 50, illus. b/w p. 62; Indianapolis, IN, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, "Illustrators of the American West," July 9 - Sept. 19, 1993, unnumbered check list
References
Anton Kamp, "N. C. Wyeth, Painter and Illustrator," The Artgum (Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston) vol. IV, no. 4 (April 1926), illus. b/w p. 11; "Taming a Frontier," Transmission Magazine (Northern Natural Gas Company), vol. XVII, no. 4 (1968), p. 14, as "Indian Attack"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 214; Peter Hassrick, The Way West, Art of Frontier America (NY: Harry Abrams, 1977), illus. in color p. 201; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1007, p. 482
Curatorial RemarksIn a publisher's preface dated July 8, 1925 and printed in the Wyeth / Remington edition, the artist is quoted as saying, "This title has been much on my mind for several years....'The Oregon Trail' has always been deep in my blood. I feel very much stirred to interpret my dreams into pictures." Wyeth was keenly aware that his ancestor Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856) had led several expeditions to the American northwest in the 1830s.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:(BRM file photo)