$225,150
Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945) That Endless Stream Across the Dubuque Ferry was Flowing on Ahead of Me, and the Fast-Going Part of it Was Passing Me Every Hour Like Swift Schooners Outstripping a Slow, Round-Bellied Square-Rigger. 1921. Signed "N C Wyeth" l.l. Oil on canvas, 30 x 29 1/4 in. (76.2 x 74.3 cm), framed. Condition: Craquelure, surface grime. N.B. N. C. Wyeth viewed himself as both a painter and illustrator, and struggled with dichotomy of the two roles throughout his career. A Massachusetts native, Wyeth first studied with artists Eric Pape, Charles W. Reed, and Charles H. Davis. In 1902, influenced by his father's pragmatism, he left to study with Howard Pyle, America's foremost illustrator, who established an art school in Wilmington, Delaware. Wyeth, encouraged by Pyle, headed West to Colorado and New Mexico in 1904. Wyeth had began to display interest in the west, in 1903 he wrote "[the west] had never been painted except by Remington and he has only pictured the brutal and gory side of it and not the sublime and mysterious qualities of those limitless plains and their heros [sic]" (1) Wyeth's first published illustration was a bucking bronco, which appeared on a 1903 cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Following this, Pyle urged the young artist to inform his work with first-hand experience. As Boehme writes, "Thus the tenacious Newell Convers Wyeth demonstrated his mettle and the lengths he would go to gain authentic western expe Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-09-12
