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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) untitled (hunter with two dogs in cornfield) ca. 1912 / 1913 known by reproduction only NCW NUMBER 2109 TITLE untitled (hunter with two dogs in cornfield) DATE ca. 1912 / 1913 INITIAL USE Illustration for 1914 calendar, Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, CT; also used as a cover illustration on the "Winchester Herald," official organ of the National Association of Winchester Clubs, 2, no. 9 (Oct. 1921), published by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company REFERENCES Bob Strauss, Beverly Strauss, American Sporting Advertising, Vol. I, Posters and Calendars (Jefferson, ME: Circus Promotions Corp., 1987), WR-18; Tom Webster, Winchester Rarities (Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2000), p. 18; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.23, p. 644 CURATORIAL COMMENT This may be the commission Wyeth referred to in a letter to his mother of Jan. 9, 1912, "Only last night (Sunday) I received a telephone call from New York to reserve rights to paint the Winchester Arms Co. some sort of special picture." IMAGE SOURCE Digital photography from reproduction PHOTO CREDIT Winchester/Olin Corporation