Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Soldiers of the Soil, alternate design, composition drawing
Alternate Title(s):Soldiers of the Soil, alternate design
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
42 1/8 × 36 1/8 in. (107 × 91.8 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.516
Research Number: NCW: 1789
InscribedLower left: Sketch by / N. C. Wyeth; Inscribed below margin: Soldiers of the Soil; verso, upper left: Plowman / and Flags
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Curatorial RemarksThis composition drawing is so closely related to the Brown & Bigelow calendar image ( NCW 562), that it must represent an alternative, probably earlier, composition. It seems likely that advertising executives insisted on the more modern image of tractors rather than horse-drawn plows. The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.181) that would have been used in the transfer of the design from one medium to another.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer