Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Wheeling at arm's length, shot again.
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1798
Research Number: NCW: 1798
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH / -06 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY to at least 1916
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 218; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.125, p. 140
Curatorial RemarksThis is the third of the illustrations that Wyeth did for "Whispering Smith" in July of 1906. He was pleased with it, writing he thought it "turned out to be the best thing of its sort I ever did" (NCW to Carolyn Bockius Wyeth, "I presume this will be the last..." and dated in another hand July 15, 1906, Wyeth Family Archives). This and the final painting for the book (NCW 992) were completed in four days (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "My work, after a very hard fight,..." and dated in another hand July 15, 1906, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from print source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/16/2005