Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (sketch of Pyle's Barn)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1917 / 1918
Dimensions:
15 7/8 × 19 5/8 in. (40.3 × 49.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2462
Research Number: NCW: 2462
InscribedOn reverse of canvas marked in black in lower left: 712
ProvenanceThe artist; Joseph D. Craven, Wilmington, DE to 1957; Private collection, MD, to 2006; (Somerville Manning Gallery, 2006); (Versailles, Kentucky, Kneeland Cross Gate Gallery, Nov. 20, 2013, lot no. 100)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth, Illustrations and Landscape Paintings," Oct. 13--Nov. 11, 2006, illus. (unpaginated)
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.124, p. 739
Curatorial RemarksThis is the barn on the Chadds Ford property that N. C. Wyeth rented from April 1908 - March 1911. It continued to be a favorit motif for almost a decade.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Schneck, 2006