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N. C. Wyeth
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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Description
- N. C. Wyeth
- We're On Our Way
- signed N.C. WYETH twice (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 45 by 33 inches
- (114.3 by 83.8 cm)
- Painted in 1942.
Provenance
Ketterlinus Lithograph Mfg. Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1942
Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943
Private collection, New York, 1975
[With]Reese Palley Gallery, Atlantic City, New Jersey
[With]Judy Goffman American Paintings, New York
Montell USA Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, 1988
Cawley Family Collection (sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, November 28, 2007, lot 131)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943
Private collection, New York, 1975
[With]Reese Palley Gallery, Atlantic City, New Jersey
[With]Judy Goffman American Paintings, New York
Montell USA Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, 1988
Cawley Family Collection (sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, November 28, 2007, lot 131)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Exhibited
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Reflections of American History, June-September 1976
Washington, D.C., Capitol Building, Russell Rotunda, One Nation, Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth, January 2001, no. 41, illustrated p. 44
Washington, D.C., Capitol Building, Russell Rotunda, One Nation, Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth, January 2001, no. 41, illustrated p. 44
Literature
Brown & Bigelow, calendar illustration, 1944
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. C170, p. 694, illustrated
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. C170, p. 694, illustrated
Catalogue Note
The present work was originally published by Keterlinus Lithograph Mfg. Company, possibly as a war bond poster (Fig. 1). It was then sold to Brown & Bigelow, manufacturers of calendars for businesses, who featured the image in a 1944 calendar.