There, the artist freely rekindled his love for the beautiful and serene Brandywine River Valley every recorded wooded hillside, stream, meadow, barn and farmhouse thus revealing a certain likening for landscape and rural themes in his independent, non-commissioned work. Wyeth began seriously studying and painting the countryside. However, it is only when he and his wife Carolyn decided to permanently move from Wilmington to Chadds Ford in 1908, that N.C.

In Delaware, his teacher Howard Pyle (1853-1911) encouraged him to explore this vein and devote part of his time to paint the surroundings.

709.īefore devoting his career to Illustration art, and even during his earliest days as an illustrator, Newell Convers Wyeth had expressed a strong desire to become a landscape painter. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Scala, London, 2008, L.26, p. Works From 1903-1940,' Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware, June 14-September 14, 2019.īetsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. 'The Wyeths of Chadds Ford: The Early Years,' Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, May 31-November 23, 1997. Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware, 1995. Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware.Īcquired directly from the above in 1996. WYETH STUDIO IN CHADDSFORD'WHERE HE PAINTED TREASURE IS.' on upper stretcher verso, and 'NEAR THE CHADDS FORD INN A FORMER BARN HE PUT IN STUDIO WINDOW CIRCA 1908' on bottom stretcher verso, oil on canvasīy descent in the Wyeth family to Carolyn Wyeth, the Artist's daughter. Signed 'NC WYETH' (underlined) bottom right also inscribed 'N.C.

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