Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
America's First Standing Army
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.551
Research Number: NCW: 551
InscribedLower left: N.C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 1129, dated 8.17.42; written on panel label: America's First / Standing Army / # 6; written on panel: # 2 (crossed out)
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1944; gift to the U. S. Naval Academy
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: U. S. Naval Academy, 1961), no. 212, p. 13; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 291; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.162, p. 691-692
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a related composition drawing (NCW 2082, 91.1.515) with slight variations; a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.137) used in the transfer from paper to panel; and an archival photograph annotated on the reverse in the artist's hand: VII Gen. Wayne reviewing / first American Army / in 1791 - in western / Penna.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley, 1/2006