Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Confronted by a Grizzly; Cowboy and Bear
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
38 1/4 × 28 3/8 in. (97.2 × 72.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1325
Research Number: NCW: 1325
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / illegible (possibly a date)
ProvenanceStreet & Smith Publications, New York, NY; Private collection (Street & Smith executive), and descended in family; (Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, ca. 1974); Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sheerin, ca. 1974; (?); (Judy Goffman American Paintings, New York, NY, 1988)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 102, as "Confronted by a Grizzly"; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57, as "Cowboy and Bear"
References
Western Story Magazine, Oct. 1948, cover illustration in color; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 269; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.447, p. 263
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of private collector