Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Indian Lance
Alternate Title(s):The Lance
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1909
Dimensions:
38 1/8 × 25 in. (96.8 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.217
Research Number: NCW: 217
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 09
ProvenanceEx collection, Harding & Harding (American Livestock Insurance Company), Geneva, IL; (?); (McCulley Fine Arts Gallery, Inc., Dallas, TX, May 1985); Private collection to 1990; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY); Collection of John Edward Dell, to 8/95; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1975; Cody, WY, 1980, plate 36; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illustration in color on p. 21, no. 49 on p. 86; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Art of the American West from a Private Collection," Sept. 5 - Nov. 23, 2003;
References
"A Livestock Heritage, Animals and People in Art" (Catalogue of corporate art collection of Harding & Harding) (Geneva, IL: privately printed, 1971), color illus. (unpaginated); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 250; Stephen T. Bruni, et al., Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition-Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998), illustration in color p. 83, see also p. 165; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), detail in color p. 13 and illustration in color p. 71; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.295, p. 206; Anson M. Beard, Jr., A Life in Full Sail (Cambridge, MA: Tide Pool, Ltd., 2012), p. 374, illus. p. 384; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 3;
Curatorial RemarksA reference to this painting probably occurs in a 1909 letter the artist wrote, "The man from Columbus, Ohio...has ordered a picture, Indian picture...," (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "We were glad to hear from you at last!..." and dated in another hand March 5, 1909, Wyeth Family Archives). A. R. Harding (d. 1930) published such popular magazines as Hunter-Trader-Trapper, Camp and Trail, and Fur-Fish-Game from Columbus at that time, but a search of these periodicals has yielded no citation.
The composition is similar to an image Wyeth published in the Saturday Evening Post in Oct. 1905 (see NCW 857).
The composition is similar to an image Wyeth published in the Saturday Evening Post in Oct. 1905 (see NCW 857).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from original painting