Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled sketch (cowboys and Indians)
Medium: Oil on artist's board
Date: 1903 / 1904
Dimensions:
12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.472
Research Number: NCW: 472
Inscribedlower right: TO MY FRIEND BLANCHE / NCW; lower left: -SKETCH-
ProvenanceThe artist to Blanche Swayne, ca. 1905 - 1963
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Howard Pyle A Teacher: The Formal Years 1894-1905," May 30 - Sept. 1, 1980; Chadds Ford, PA 1990(2), illus. b/w p. 80, cat. no. 16 on p. 81;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.22, p. 108
Curatorial RemarksBlanche Swayne was the daughter of Wyeth's landlady when he first moved to Wilmington (David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 98). Stylistically, this piece relates to NCW 1610 and drawing NCW 1379.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting