Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (Chadds Ford landscape with fox hunting scene)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1923-1924
Dimensions:
approximately 40 × 35 in. (101.6 × 88.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2525
Research Number: NCW: 2525
Inscribedlower right: TO ELIZABETH PATTERSON from N. C. WYETH / CHADDS FORD 1925
ProvenanceThe artist; to Elizabeth Patterson and descended in family
Curatorial RemarksAt age 90, Andrew Wyeth distinctly remembered his father painting this work when he (AW) was 6 or 7, which accounts for the date of the work. The tree was on the Luke property, a farm that abutted Wyeth's homestead.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of owner