Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Michael was running on across the steppe endeavouring to gain the covert of some trees when a detachment of Tartar cavalry appeared on the right.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1927
Dimensions:
40 × 30 1/2 in. (101.6 × 77.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.489
Research Number: NCW: 489
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; descended in family to 2014; (New York, NY, Christies, May 22, 2014, lot no. 117);
Exhibition HistorySpartanburg, SC, Wofford College Library, April 10 - 30, 1970; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 11
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1048, p. 496
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the edition of Michael Strogoff that the artist read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.150). On May 25, 1927, Wyeth wrote to one of his brothers, "I have just left my easle (sic) after seven hours straight of concentrated identification with a phase of the tartar invasion of Russia during Alexander II reign,..."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Michael Tropea, 7/2006