Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Study of a young male model
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1900
Dimensions:
24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (62.2 × 47 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2384
Research Number: NCW: 2384
InscribedLower left: No. 58; paper watermarked L. BERVILLE and LaLANNE
Provenance(Tepper Gallery, New York, NY, by April 1976); (The Stradlings, New York, NY, April 1976-August 1976); Keating Collection, ME, 1976-2020
Exhibition HistoryCooperstown, NY, Fenimore Art Museum, "Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies," May 7-September 5, 2022.
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), vol. 1, page 18, as NCW 2384; Victoria Browning Wyeth, Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies (Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2022), p. 9 and p. 57, illus. p. 8; https://www.facebook.com/fenimoreartmuseum/videos/what-kind-of-images-do-you-think-of-when-you-imagine-nc-wyeths-work-his-great-gr/752165709434496/
Curatorial RemarksThis drawing is representative of the type of work the artist did as a student before joining the Howard Pyle School. It could have been drawn during Wyeth's spring semester at Massachusetts Normal Art School (1900) for a class described as "Model, charcoal," or done at the Eric Pape School in Boston during the fall 1900 term. A similar group of academic nude studies also executed in 1900 were done on paper with the same watermarks: L. BERVILLE and LaLANNE.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Snapshot directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the owner