Corn Harvest

Artist N. C. Wyeth American, 1882–1945

Datecirca 1934

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsoverall: 48 × 52 in. (121.9 × 132.1 cm)
frame: 54 1/2 × 58 1/2 × 3 in. (138.4 × 148.6 × 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Poe, in memory of their son William Dismukes Poe

Object numberG.61.3.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Chadd’s Ford, PA, ca. 1934; collection of the artist; [possibly Progressive Farmer Magazine]; Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Poe, Raleigh, NC, 1939; given to NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesProgressive Farmer 51 (November 1936), illus. (color) cover (as Corn Harvest in the Hill Country).

Progressive Farmer 61 (October 1946), illus. (color) cover (as Autumn in the Hill Country).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 37 (as Corn Harvest on the Brandywine), illus. (color).

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 81, illus. (b-w).

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 202 (November 20, 1967), discussed 551, illus. (color) cover.

Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illus. (color) 180.

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 31, illus. (b-w) 31.

Progressive Farmer 101 (February 1986), illus. (color, detail) cover, discussed 7.

Melissa Clement, "Nature and her many faces on display in landscape show," (exhibition review), Fayetteville Observer-Times (December 4, 1998), mentioned 19.

Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Vol. 2 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd., 2008), 759, no. L179 (as Corn Harvest), illus. (color) 758.

”Highlights of the American Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2009), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 11.

Brandywine River Museum, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonné, online database at www.ncwyeth.org, NCW no. 115 (as Corn Harvest).

David Berndt, Bayard Taylor Berndt: Brandywine Valley Artist (Alexandria, VA: Commonwealth Books, 2012), mentioned and illus. (color) 28 (as Corn Harvest on the Brandywine), also illus. (color) 123, with incorrect caption.

Jessica May and Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press for Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2019), illus. (color) 181, pl. 57.
Exhibition History[Possibly Wilmington, DE, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, November 1934, no. 233 (as October Brandywine)]

Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "131st Annual Exhibition," January 26-March 1, 1936, no. 233 (as Corn Harvest)

Kinston, NC, Kinston Arts Council, "Thanksgiving Week," November 17-December 1, 1966.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, cat. no. 81, illus. (b-w).

Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Newell Convers Wyeth," May 20-October 15, 1972, no. 48.

Greenville, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art, "N. C. Wyeth," March 9-May 26, 1974, no. 37.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 31, illus. (b-w) 31.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Howard Pyle and the Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination," February 4-April 1, 1984 (exhibited at Raleigh venue only of exhibition organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; not listed in catalogue, but illus. (b-w) in gallery brochure published by NCMA.

Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "The Land of the Brandywine," June 7-September 7, 1992.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World," April 25-June 28, 1998; Hickory, NC, Hickory Museum of Art, September 12-November 8, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, November 22, 1998-January 17, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1999, brochure (state outreach exhibition).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Highlights of the American Collection, February 15-August 2, 2009.

Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," June 22–September 15, 2019; Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, October 4, 2019–January 12, 2020; Cincinnati, OH, Taft Museum of Art, February 8–May 3, 2020, illus. (color) 181, pl. 57.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

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