Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Village
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1910 / 1911
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (63.8 × 76.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.214
Research Number: NCW: 214
InscribedLower left: N.C. WYETH (underlined); on right stretcher member: THE VILLAGE / N O (Roman numeral 5) / 1 (circled); stamped twice on left stretcher and once on top stretcher: Estate of Bernard Stafford Good / Gilmanton, New Hampshire; stamped on top stretcher: Jeanne G. Good
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); Bernard Stafford Good; Mrs. Bernard Stafford Good, Laconia, NH, to ca. 1970; Collection of Mrs. Walter J. Winther, ca. 1970-2015;
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1912(1), no. 4; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.53, 716, 717
Curatorial RemarksThis work is typical of the small, impressionistic landscapes that the artist exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in November, 1912. The view is looking down the drive from the house N. C. Wyeth rented in Chadds Ford between April 1908 through March 1911 to the village of Chadds Ford. Wyeth painted the same view in the summer time (NCW 2356).
Andrew Wyeth remembered that the illustrator Bernard Stafford Good appeared in Chadds Ford about the same time as Peter Hurd, ca. 1923-25, and may have taken informal instruction from N. C. Wyeth.
Andrew Wyeth remembered that the illustrator Bernard Stafford Good appeared in Chadds Ford about the same time as Peter Hurd, ca. 1923-25, and may have taken informal instruction from N. C. Wyeth.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer