Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

The Homesteaders

Details

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
The Homesteaders
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on panel
21½ x 19 in. (54.5 x 48.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1937-38.

Provenance

John Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1939.
By descent in the family of the present owner.

Literature

D. Allen, D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 291.

Lot Essay

The present work was originally painted as the illustration for the month of April in a 1939 calendar entitled Twelve Artists Depict America for John Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, Iowa.

This painting is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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