Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Drums, cover illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
42 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (108 × 75.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.753
Research Number: NCW: 753
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1968, # 54809); (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); (?); (Judy Goffman Fine Art, NY, 1987)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 58; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 7
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 11; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 198; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1055, p. 498, 499
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission, marking it with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239). Pentimenti reveal that lettering across the top (DRUMS) and across the bottom (JAMES BOYD / PICTURES by N. C. WYETH) was painted out, most likely by the artist himself.
An example of the illustration, pasted to a slipcase or holiday box, is owned by a private collector.
An example of the illustration, pasted to a slipcase or holiday box, is owned by a private collector.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the Archive of the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY