Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (Navajo Indian woman with blanket)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: 1904
Dimensions:
11 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (30.2 × 22.5 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.3
Research Number: NCW: 3
Inscribednone
ProvenanceThe artist; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "The Brandywine Heritage," June 19 - Oct. 17, 1971, cat. no. 53 p. 44, illus. b/w p. 46; Cody, WY, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, "The Western World of N. C. Wyeth," May 1 - Sept. 30, 1980, p. 57 (additional venues: New York, NY, Coe Kerr Gallery, Oct. 14 - Nov. 11, 1980; Denver, CO, Colorado Historical Society, Dec. 20, 1980 - Feb. 15, 1981); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth's Wild West," Sept. 8 - Nov. 18, 1990, illus. b/w p. 61, cat. no. 8 p. 78 (additional venues: Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Dec. 6, 1990 - Feb. 5, 1991; Tulsa, OK, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Feb. 15 - April 7, 1991); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 114;
References
Henry C. Pitz, "N. C. Wyeth," American Heritage, vol. XVI, no. 6 (Oct. 1965), illustration p. 47; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), b/w illustration p. 32
Curatorial RemarksIn a letter to his parents dated November 3, 1904, Wyeth wrote from Canon Gallegos, NM, "I have had very little time to sketch although I have made 8 or 10 Indian heads in pencil and a couple in color."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w photography directly from drawing