Think What Might Happen if It Was Not Protected by Those Hills!

细节

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Think What Might Happen if It Was Not Protected by Those Hills!
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (upper right)
oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

来源

The artist.
Mrs. N.C. Wyeth, wife of the above.
Carolyn Wyeth, daughter of the above.
[With]Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
[With]Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, Mexico.
[With]Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.

出版

R. Norton, "Hardpan & Co.," The Sunday Magazine, August 3, 1913, p. 3, illustrated.
D. Allen, D. Allen Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 282.
Portland Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth, Precious Time, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Maine, 2000, p. 56.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 290, no. I.514, illustrated.

展览

Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth, Precious Time, September 22-October 15, 2000.

拍品专文

The present work was originally painted as an illustration for Roy Norton's fictional story in The Sunday Magazine titled "Hardpan & Co." The title of the painting is inspired by a quote from the first installment of the story, "There was one enthusiastic group out there (on the porch of rustic hotel), hovering around an old man whose long, flowing, snow-white beard shone through the dimness." (R. Norton, "Hardpan & Co.," The Sunday Magazine, August 3, 1913, p. 3) The elderly man described in the story and painted in the present work is identified as a conservationist by the name of John Brewer. In the story, John Brewer meets the young man and hero of the story, John King, and the two go for a walk on the beach of the lake near the hotel where John Brewer delivers his speech about protecting the wilderness.
We wish to thank Christine Podmaniczky for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.