Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Fighting the fire from the telephone poles.
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1904
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1604
Research Number: NCW: 1604
InscribedLower right: -Wyeth- / Balto. Feb -1904- (from reproduction)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 69 -71; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 255, b/w illustration p. 29; 'J. K.', "How N. C. Wyeth Sketched the Baltimore Fire," The (Baltimore, MD) News American, Feb. 7, 1974, b/w illustration p. 1, section B
Curatorial RemarksWyeth's trip to Baltimore during the fire of 1904 with other Pyle students to provide pictorial material for Collier's Weekly is described in detail in a letter Wyeth wrote to his mother. See Betsy James Wyeth, ps. 69 - 71.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Scan from scrapbook tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library