untitled (Indian head and small full-length figure)

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

untitled (Indian head and small full-length figure)

Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: 1904
Dimensions:
11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (30.2 × 22.2 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.8
Research Number: NCW: 8
Inscribednone
ProvenanceThe artist
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "The Brandywine Heritage," June 19 - Oct. 17, 1971; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Brandywine West," Jan. 18- May 18, 1975; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth's Wild West," Sept. 8 - Nov. 18, 1990, cat. no. 3 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);
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