Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Untitled (Studies of 8 Civil War soldiers)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
7 5/8 × 10 in. (19.4 × 25.4 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of McCoy duPont Weymouth in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, 2017
Accession number: 2017.6.13
Label Copy:
Several of these figure studies, including the mounted figure on the verso, relate directly to figures that appear in Wyeth's paintings for The Long Roll by Mary Johnston (Houghton Mifflin, 1911). The figure in the lower right, for example, relates to the figure in The Vedette (NCW 21). The sheet is a piece of stationery, as the beginning of a letter to Scribner's art editor Joseph H. Chapin on the reverse makes clear.
Several of these figure studies, including the mounted figure on the verso, relate directly to figures that appear in Wyeth's paintings for The Long Roll by Mary Johnston (Houghton Mifflin, 1911). The figure in the lower right, for example, relates to the figure in The Vedette (NCW 21). The sheet is a piece of stationery, as the beginning of a letter to Scribner's art editor Joseph H. Chapin on the reverse makes clear.
Research Number: NCW: 398
InscribedOn reverse of sheet in ink: Chadds Ford / Pa ----- / Dear Mr. Chapin: / I am glad to hear; on reverse, in pencil, quick sketch of figure on horseback; paper is watermarked: French / Cambric
Provenance(Christie's, New York, NY, Sept. 15, 2005, lot no. 109); (Doe Run Valley Books, Chadds Ford, PA, 2006)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Romance in Conflict, N. C. Wyeth's Civil War Paintings," Jan. 22-March 20, 2011
Curatorial RemarksSeveral of these figure studies, including the mounted figure on the verso, relate directly to figures that appear in Wyeth's paintings for "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston (Houghton Mifflin, 1911). The figure in the lower right, for example, relates to the figure in "The Vedette" (NCW 21). The sheet is a piece of stationery, as the beginning of a letter to Scribner's art editor Joseph H. Chapin on the reverse makes clear. By spring 1912, Wyeth was regularly using the more informal greeting "My dear Chapin" (Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Princeton University Library) to begin his letters.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan of drawing
Photo Credit:BRM staff