Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Trappers.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925
Dimensions:
40 × 28 1/2 in. (101.6 × 72.4 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Jane Pyle Bartholomew, 2015
Accession number: 2015.3.1
Copyright: © artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Research Number: NCW: 1109
InscribedLower left: to JANE PYLE / 1943; lower right; from N. C. WYETH (underlined) / W; painted on reverse of canvas: JIM BRIDGER (underlined) - SCOUT & TRAPPER / In the South-west / by N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Jane Pyle, 1943, and private collection to 2015
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 214; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1008, p. 483
Curatorial RemarksIn a publisher's preface dated July 8, 1925 and printed in the Wyeth / Remington edition, the artist is quoted as saying, "This title has been much on my mind for several years....'The Oregon Trail' has always been deep in my blood. I feel very much stirred to interpret my dreams into pictures." Wyeth was keenly aware that his ancestor Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856) had led several expeditions to the American northwest in the 1830s.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from print source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer