Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Drums, endpaper illustration
Alternate Title(s):Colonial forces recruited from the people of the mountain regions
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
26 1/2 × 40 in. (67.3 × 101.6 cm)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Gift of Sarah and Landon Rowland, 2006
Accession number: SUPP2000.1747
Research Number: NCW: 1747
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH / W (with a dot at each lower point); on reverse of canvas: P. Cole / 47670 / 14 1/4 x 9 1/2; on reverse of frame: Dr P Cole
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); Dr. Philip Gillette Cole, New York, NY; (?); Baron and Baronne Alain de Gunzburg; (Paris, Hotel Drouot Richelieu, July 1, 2005, lot no. 40, illus. p. 21); (?); (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Nov. 30, 2005, lot no. 235); Sarah and Landon Rowland
References
William Chauncy Langdon, Everyday Things in American Life, 1607-1776 (New York: Scribner's, 1937), b/w illus. f. p. 119, as "Colonial forces recruited from the people of the mountain regions"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 198; Member Magazine, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spring 2007, ps. 12-13; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1056, p. 499
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission and marked with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239). The Museum also holds several reproduction proofs from the artist's collection which measure 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches, the measurements corresponding to the marks on the reverse of the canvas. "47670" is likely the Scribner's number assigned to the illustrations.
The first recorded owner of this painting, Dr. Philip Gillette Cole, was a major collector of American art in the period 1920-1940; his name appears in N. C. Wyeth's address book (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1174).
The first recorded owner of this painting, Dr. Philip Gillette Cole, was a major collector of American art in the period 1920-1940; his name appears in N. C. Wyeth's address book (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1174).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Philippe Sébert, Paris