Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Washington
Alternate Title(s):Washington Reviewing His Troops; Washington Reviewing the Troops
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
40 × 30 1/8 in. (101.6 × 76.5 cm)
Collection of the Hill School, Pottstown, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.776
Research Number: NCW: 776
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Michael F. Sweeney for The Hill School, 1923
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 67 as "Washington Reviewing His Troops"; Lititz, PA, 1991; Roanoke, VA, 1991; Philadelphia, PA, Union League of Philadelphia, "Artists of the Brandywine River Valley, 1850-1993," May 13 - June 30, 1993, no. 34; Rockland, ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Poems of American Patriotism," May 15 - Sept. 26, 2010; Sandwich, MA, Heritage Museum and Gardens, "The Wyeths: America Reflected," June 6 - Sept. 27, 2015
References
George E. Freeland, et al., America's Building, The Makers of Our Flag (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937), illus. f.p. 84; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 212; "Sweeney's Legacy," Hill (The Hill School Bulletin), Sept. 1980, cover illustration; Tom Brokaw, et al., One Nation, Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth (Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Co., 2000), fig. 20 on page 21, as "Washington Reviewing His Troops"; Colonel Raymond K. Bluhm, Jr., ed., U.S. Army A Complete History (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 2004), illustration in color, p. 81 as "Washington Reviewing the Troops"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.902, p. 436; Martha Severens, "The Wyeths: America Reflected," American Art Review, vol. xxvii, no. 3 (May-June 2015), illus. p. 100;
Curatorial RemarksThe unillustrated edition of Poems of American Patriotism that the artist read and annotated in preparation for this commission is in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum (NCWS.95.157). The artist's reaction to the Hill School purchase is expressed in a letter to Arthur L. Bailey, librarian of the Wilmington Institute Library, "At present, I am sitting on top of the world!" (NCW to ALB, May 14, 1923, Wilmington Institute Library).
NCW 1359 is a composition drawing for this image.
The U.S. Military Academy used this image inside a Christmas card that was issued circa 1931-1933. The reproduction copyright was credited to Charles Scribner's Sons.
NCW 1359 is a composition drawing for this image.
The U.S. Military Academy used this image inside a Christmas card that was issued circa 1931-1933. The reproduction copyright was credited to Charles Scribner's Sons.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 4/1999