Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Amateurs at War, composition drawing for dust-jacket illustration
Medium: Charcoal and graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1943
Dimensions:
44 1/2 × 31 3/4 in. (113 × 80.6 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, 1985
Accession number: 85.10.109
Research Number: NCW: 510
InscribedLower left: N. C. W.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, to 1985
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 2000, color illustration, fig. 39
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 227
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide of the drawing (NCWS.95.1825.98), used in the transfer of the design from paper to canvas (NCW 1389). The cover design as printed wrapped around the book's spine and required an image of different proportions, suggesting that the drawing has been trimmed on the left side, or that the final design was selected after this drawing was executed.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from drawing
Photo Credit:BRM files, no photographer credited