Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (smiling Indian girl)
Alternate Title(s):Smiling Indian Girl
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: SUPP2000.1
Research Number: NCW: 1
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; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth's Wild West," Sept. 8 - Nov. 18, 1990, cat. no. 13 p. 78
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