Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"The Nor'westers Built Canoes that Would Carry Twelve Men"
Alternate Title(s):Shooting the Rapids
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
25 1/2 × 37 1/2 in. (64.8 × 95.3 cm)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Riegel
Accession number: SUPP2000.101
Research Number: NCW: 101
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -05-
ProvenanceWyeth family to ca. 1969
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 28, as "Shooting the Rapids"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1975; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57, plate 13 on p. 32, as "Shooting the Rapids"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illustration in b/w p. 29, cat. no. 17 on p. 81; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2); Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 272; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.100, p. 131
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photo files