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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) The Moose Hunt ca. 1919 Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (91.7 x 101.9 cm) Private collection NCW NUMBER 854 TITLE The Moose Hunt ALTERNATE TITLE(S) The Moose Call; Moose Hunters MEDIUM Oil on canvas INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S) Lower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) DATE ca. 1919 PROVENANCE (James Graham & Sons, 1966); Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sheerin; (Christies, New York, NY, Dec. 2, 1988, lot no. 167, as "The Moose Call"); (American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, NY, by Jan. 1994); Cawley Family Collection, Wilmington, DE; (Christie's, New York, NY, lot no. 52, Nov. 29, 2001) EXHIBITION HISTORY Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 101, as "Moose Hunters" (note size discrepancy) INITIAL USE copyrighted by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company; reproductions used as a calendar illustration and cardboard pop-up by Dominion Cartridge Company (Canadian ammunition company selling cartridges with Winchester powder) REFERENCES Antiques Magazine, vol. LXXXIX, no. 5 (May 1966), illustration in b/w; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 292; "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries," Christies, New York, NY, lot no. 167, Dec. 2, 1988, illustration in b/w p. 149; "The Fine Arts Trader," Jan. 1994 (Bartfield Galleries advertisement), illustration in b/w, back page; Gray's Sporting Journal, vol. 22, no. 5 (Sept. 1997), cover illustration; "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," Christie's, New York, NY, lot no. 52, Nov. 29, 2001, illustration in color p. 89; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.42, p. 651 CURATORIAL COMMENT The painting is dated by the rifle in the picture, identified as a Winchester Model 51, "The Imperial," a prototype of 1919 and not publicly released (Jennifer Houze, Cody Firearms Museum to CBP, Dec. 12, 1996, Brandywine River Museum). Strauss and Strauss give the calendar year as 1919 (although the hanger illustrated no longer has the calendar pad) which, if correct, would date the painting a year earlier. IMAGE SOURCE Transparency directly from artwork PHOTO CREDIT Rick Echelmeyer, 10/1999