Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Golyer
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
26 1/8 × 24 in. (66.4 × 61 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.412
Research Number: NCW: 412
InscribedTitled on painting: GOLYER; in upper right: P. 31; label adhered to stretcher: 54842 / PICTURE; all four stretcher keys are marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.; written on top frame member: CA-7291; written on top frame member: 80 (circled)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - Dec. 1965, no. 54842); Mr.and Mrs. H. R. Eshelman, Jr., Lancaster, PA
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 80
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.400, p. 248
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer