Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Bunker Hill
Medium: graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
H: 19 in, W: 23 1/8 in
Accession number: SUPP2000.1534
Research Number: NCW: 1534
InscribedLower right of image: N C W; in pencil under image: BUNKER HILL
ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Wyeth McCoy; descended in family; (New York, NY, Christie's, March 14-23, 2016, lot no. 10)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, 1995, as "Bunker Hill";
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.145) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel (NCW548). Although two large cracks in the lantern slide distort the image, the lantern slide clearly shows the original appearance of the drawing, before the upper third of the drawing was separated along a horizontal seam and lost.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. photography directly from artwork; 2. image from lantern slide (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1825.145)
Photo Credit:1. Courtesy of Christie's; 2. photographer unknown