Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (two female figures bathing in woodland stream)
Alternate Title(s):In the Woods; Landscape Study
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
32 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (81.9 × 102.2 cm)
Collection of the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.2121
Research Number: NCW: 2121
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1916
Provenance(?); Private collection ca. 1940s or 1950s and descended in family; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Dec. 3, 1997, lot no. 208); (American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY)
References
N. C. Wyeth, "The Illustrator and His Development," The American Art Student, vol. 1, no. 3-4 (Nov.-Dec. 1916), illus. b/w p. 5, as "Landscape Study"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.102, p. 731
Curatorial RemarksAlthough it was captioned "Landscape Study," this canvas must have been considered by the artist an important step in his development; he selected it as one of two landscapes to illustrate his article "The Illustrator and His Development." He explained the technique in a letter to Sidney M. Chase (NCW to Sidney Chase, April 19, 1916, WFA, and published in Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1882-1945, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 523).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency