The Pioneer and the Vision

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Pioneer and the Vision

Alternate Title(s):The Widened Vision
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1918
Dimensions:
33 × 41 in. (83.8 × 104.1 cm)
Lucas Cultural Arts Museum San Francisco, CA
Accession number: SUPP2000.746
Research Number: NCW: 746
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceN. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia, PA; (?); [Frank E. Fowler]; Greenville County Museum of Art, Gift of John H. Epstein, 1976; [New York, NY, Christies, May 21, 2008, lot no. 129]
Exhibition History`New York, NY, 1927, ps. 34 and 121; Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum, "American Art 1890-1945," Nov. 11 - Dec. 24, 1978; Albany, GA, 1981, no. 3
References "Twelve Advertisements," 1919 advertising brochure of N. W. Ayer & Son (N. W. Ayer Advertising Agency Records, 1849-2001, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 228, 293; A. Boime, The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny & American Landscape Painting, c. 1830-1865 (Washington, D.C., 1991), p. 115; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.37, p. 649
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Patrick Cox Photography, 4/21/2006