Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Heidi, composition drawing (with 5 sketches for Summer Night on verso)
Alternate Title(s):Heidi, composition drawing (with 5 sketches for Summer Night on verso)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1940
Dimensions:
22 × 16 1/2 in. (55.9 × 41.9 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.543
Research Number: NCW: 2068
Inscribedverso: five sketches for Summer Night; in pencil, upper right: "summer night" / sketches / N.C.W.
ProvenanceEstate of N. C. Wyeth; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; Estate of Carolyn Wyeth
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.62) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel (NCW 1012). On the verso, there are five sketches related to "Summer Night" (see NCW 365).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer