Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Little Breeches, with capital letter "I"
Alternate Title(s):And helll-to-split over the prarie
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
15 1/8 × 20 in. (38.4 × 50.8 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.6
Research Number: NCW: 908
InscribedNone; label on reverse (Knoedler's): No. 54865 / Picture; label on reverse: LITTLE BREECHES / ("Pike County Ballads" by John Hay / Houghton, Mifflin & Company)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1968, no. 54865); Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 84; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 9; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206 as "And helll-to-split over the prarie"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.387, p. 245
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/2002