Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Columbus Discovers America, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
45 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (115.6 × 100.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.648
Research Number: NCW: 648
Provenancewith Wyeth family until 1976; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); (with American Illustrators Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1979)
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers
Curatorial RemarksNCW 2329 is a study for the figure of Columbus. The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide made from the composition drawing that was used to transfer the design from the paper to the panel (NCWS.95.1825.143).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w photography directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Frank E. Fowler