Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Romance of the C. P.
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2023
Research Number: NCW: 2023
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth (from reproduction)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 27-28; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 278; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.8, p. 103
Curatorial RemarksThe artist mentioned this painting in his January 2, 1903, letter to his mother, the earliest description of a work for publication. "I've got a large illustration to make for Success," he wrote, "in fact, have it well along now. It represents a surveyor in the rocky Mountains surveying in a perilous place. He is perched on a jut of rock hanging over a canyon of terrible depth. Mr. Pyle likes my picture very much."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library (scrap book B)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer