Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Title unknown (boy between two people in wagon, possibly related to The Yearling commission)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: ca.1939
Dimensions:
13 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (34.9 × 37.5 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.541
Research Number: NCW: 2085
Inscribedno marks
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Curatorial RemarksNo archival information provides a title for this drawing, however, the characters strongly resemble those in the Baxter family as Wyeth depicted them for The Yearling, thus accounting for the date of the work.
A brief search of the text of The Yearling, however, reveals only one trip the Baxter family took in a wagon; in that description the boy Jody "sat on the floor of the wagon with his back against the seat" (p. 297-298). And the present work is not consistent with the proportions of the other illustrations for The Yearling.
NCW 837, The Forresters Go to Town, created for The Yearling, is a similar composition, though vertically oriented.
A brief search of the text of The Yearling, however, reveals only one trip the Baxter family took in a wagon; in that description the boy Jody "sat on the floor of the wagon with his back against the seat" (p. 297-298). And the present work is not consistent with the proportions of the other illustrations for The Yearling.
NCW 837, The Forresters Go to Town, created for The Yearling, is a similar composition, though vertically oriented.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer