Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
A Sultry Day
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1909 / 1910
Dimensions:
25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.2359
Research Number: NCW: 2359
InscribedOn stretcher: A Sultry Day
Provenancefrom a house in Needham, MA; Private collection, Boston, MA, to 2000; (Christie's, New York, NY, May 25, 2000, lot no. 100)
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 9; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.33, p. 710
Curatorial RemarksThe view is looking southwest to the barn and house belonging to Burt Guest, whose property was adjacent to the property the Wyeth family rented from 1908 to 1911. The Guest barn is recognizable in other paintings, such as NCW 214, NCW 1047, and NCW 2356. Beyond the Guest property is Chadds Ford village.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Christie's