Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Apple Tree, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1935 / 1945
Dimensions:
36 1/2 × 28 in. (92.7 × 71.1 cm)
Private collection, CA
Accession number: SUPP2000.465
Research Number: NCW: 465
InscribedBelow image: The Apple Tree; lower right: N. C. W.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN, 1976)
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide made from this drawing (NCWS.95.1825). Wyeth used the slides to transfer a design from paper to a canvas or panel support, but no painted image of "The Apple Tree" has been located and Andrew Wyeth does not recall a painting after this composition (AW to CBP, 3/13/2006, Brandywine River Museum curatorial files). Further documentation of the drawing (such as size) is based on a handwritten list at the BRM compiled in 1976 when the drawing was one of a lot consigned to Frank E. Fowler for sale.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Image from photographic print of lantern slide