Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Story of Cattle
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
26 × 24 1/2 in. (66 × 62.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.832
Research Number: NCW: 832
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, numbered 825 and dated 10/27/39; label adhered to reverse of panel: Judy Goffman / American Paintings/ Fort Washington / Pennsylvania / "The Story of Cattle" / Tempera on Panel / 26 x 24 1/2"
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA; gift to The University of South Dakota, 1941; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN, 1982); (Judy Goffman Fine American Paintings, Blue Bell, PA, 1982-1984)
Exhibition HistoryMorristown, NJ, 1983, no. 11
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1940 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 156, 291; Milo Dailey, "Given to University by John Morrell & Co. Collection of N. C. Wyeth Paintings Hanging in USD School of Business," Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, Sept. 13, 1972, p. 19; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.142, p. 684, 685
Curatorial RemarksNCW 1029 is a composition drawing for this image. The Brandywine River Museum holds the lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.426) of the drawing used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of American Illustrators Gallery