Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (two hunters and canoe)
Alternate Title(s):Hunters and Canoe
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
46 3/4 × 37 3/4 in. (118.7 × 95.9 cm)
Collection of Amy Ruger Whiteley
Accession number: SUPP2000.1191
Research Number: NCW: 1191
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH / 1911
Provenance(Bruce M. Gilbert Antiques, Woodbury, CT, 1970); Collection of William B. Ruger, 1970 to 2002
Exhibition HistorySouthport, CT, Pequot Library Association, "Collector's Choice," Sept. 26- Oct. 5, 1975
References
Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, Linda S. Ferber, and Peter H. Hassrick, After the Hunt: The Art Collection of William B. Ruger (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002), p. 84, illus. p. 85, p. 194, no. 186; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.20, p. 644
Curatorial RemarksA reproduction of this painting has not been located; it may have been done for a gun or munitions company, or it may be the painting referred to in a letter of April 17, 1911 that mentions a commission "for a private party (a sportsman) in Connecticut" (Betsy james Wyeth, ed., The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 381).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Adrienne Ruger Conzelman