Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Buffalo Swamp
Alternate Title(s):Western Characters on Horseback
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1923
Dimensions:
34 × 38 in. (86.4 × 96.5 cm)
Museum of the American West collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles
Accession number: SUPP2000.654
Research Number: NCW: 654
InscribedLower right: N.C. WYETH
Provenance(Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, through at least 1966, A8958); Collection of Western Art, Northern Natural Gas Company, Omaha, NB; (by corporate merger) ENRON Corporation, to 1988
Exhibition HistoryIndianapolis, IN, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, "Illustrators of the American West," July 9 - Sept. 19, 1993, unnumbered checklist
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 260; Transmission (magazine on Northern Natural Gas Company), vol. XXII, no. 1 (1973), color illustration on back cover, as "Western Characters on Horseback"; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration, ps. 36-37; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.947, p. 451
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting