Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Wasteful West, untitled headpiece illustration (Indian on galloping horse)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.857
Research Number: NCW: 857
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH - 05 -
ProvenancePrivate collection, Roswell, NM
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, Curtis Publishing Company, Oct. 1905;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 272; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.89, p. 128
Curatorial RemarksThis image originally may have been intended as a cover image; the boxed style is similar to some Post covers of the time. For the commission (5 paintings), he received $275.00, "d____ good for any magazine" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, I know I haven't written" and dated Oct. 1, 1905 in another hand, Wyeth Family Archives). Wyeth reworked this design in 1909 (see NCW 217).
"The Kit Carson drawings are creating quite a stir at the Curtis Pub. Co., as I saw to-day that they had them all framed in gold and hung on exhibition down in their big hall. They were the only pictures on the wall of deep red plush and I tell you they look pretty well" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, My heavens!..." and dated in another hand Oct. 5, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
"The Kit Carson drawings are creating quite a stir at the Curtis Pub. Co., as I saw to-day that they had them all framed in gold and hung on exhibition down in their big hall. They were the only pictures on the wall of deep red plush and I tell you they look pretty well" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, My heavens!..." and dated in another hand Oct. 5, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum catalogue raisonne files; Rick Echelmeyer, 10/6/2006