Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Meadow
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1909 / 1911
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 30 in. (63.8 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.791
Research Number: NCW: 791
Inscribedon reverse, photo documentation attached to new stretcher shows view of old stretcher with following notation on top stretcher bar: PAINTED BY N. C. WYETH 1925-1928 / (in another hand) The Meadow; photo documentation shows following written across old canvas: given to Stafford Good - 1925-1928 by N. C. Wyeth / Estate of B. Stafford Good / Jeanne G. Good July 9, 1978 / to Johnson Family
ProvenanceThe artist; Collection of Bernard Stafford Good, to ca. 1978; Johnson Family
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 14; Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, "8 Delaware Collectors," Oct./Nov. 1973; Chadds Ford, PA, 1992; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.43, p. 714
Curatorial RemarksBy inscriptions documented to have been on the original stretcher, this work is most likely "The Meadow," from the Philadelphia, PA 1912(1) exhibition. In a letter to the present owner, Andrew Wyeth has identified the location as a view of Harvey's Run, a creek which often served the artist as a motif.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Eric Crossan, 1/2004