Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Three Hunters
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1932
Dimensions:
approximately 47 3/4 × 33 1/2 in. (121.3 × 85.1 cm)
Collection of Philip and Joseph DeNormandie
Accession number: SUPP2000.1154
Research Number: NCW: 1154
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceHercules Powder Company, Inc. (Hercules Incorporated), Wilmington, DE, 1932-2002; (Christie's, New York, NY, lot no. 56, April 25, 2002)
Exhibition HistoryDover, DE, Wesley College, "The Wyeth Family," April 29 - May 6, 1973
References
The Hercules Mixer, vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan. 1933), p. 8 (b/w reproduction of calendar); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 153; Bob Strauss, Beverly Strauss, American Sporting Advertising, Vol. I, Posters and Calendars (Jefferson, ME: Circus Promotions Corp., 1987), HE-20; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.84, p. 665
Curatorial RemarksThe artist found sources for this painting in his own work of twenty years earlier. The trio of hunters is clearly modeled on two paintings from about 1910, an advertising image for gun powders (NCW 396) and the cover of a Popular Magazine (NCW1158).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Christie's, 2002