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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) untitled (two hunters and canoe) 1911 Oil on canvas, 46 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (118.7 x 95.8 cm) Collection of Amy Ruger Whiteley NCW NUMBER 1191 TITLE title unknown (two hunters and canoe) ALTERNATE TITLE(S) Hunters and Canoe MEDIUM Oil on canvas INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S) Lower right: N C WYETH / 1911 DATE 1911 PROVENANCE (Bruce M. Gilbert Antiques, Woodbury, CT, 1970); Collection of William B. Ruger, 1970 to 2002 EXHIBITION HISTORY Southport, CT, Pequot Library Association, "Collector's Choice," Sept. 26- Oct. 5, 1975 REFERENCES Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, Linda S. Ferber, and Peter H. Hassrick, After the Hunt: The Art Collection of William B. Ruger (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002), p. 84, illus. p. 85, p. 194, no. 186; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.20, p. 644 CURATORIAL COMMENT A reproduction of this painting has not been located; it may have been done for a gun or munitions company, or it may be the painting referred to in a letter of April 17, 1911 that mentions a commission "for a private party (a sportsman) in Connecticut" (Betsy james Wyeth, ed., The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 381). IMAGE SOURCE photography directly from artwork PHOTO CREDIT Courtesy of Adrienne Ruger Conzelman