Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Cornfield
Alternate Title(s):Landscape with Houses
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1916 / 1917
Dimensions:
24 7/8 × 30 in. (63.2 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1262
Research Number: NCW: 1262
Inscribedadhered to reverse, (Knoedler's) label: No. 54837 PICTURE / Ex. 23
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N.C. Wyeth (with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1968, # 54837)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 23 as "Cornfield"; Portland, OR, Portland Art Museum, "Portland Collects: Work Borrowed from Local Collectors," March 5 - April 30, 1993
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.121, p. 738
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was received at Knoedler's in 1956 as "Landscape with Houses." Exhibited in 1957 as "Cornfield," that title also appeared on a Knoedler's inventory of 1964. In a letter to the owner of June 9, 1968, Andrew Wyeth identified the location as "just below (N. C. Wyeth's) house in Chadds Ford" and dated the work 1929. Stylistically, it seems to relate to other paintings done in the mid teens.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Paul Foster Photography, 11/2005