Forsythe's Hill

Details

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Forsythe's Hill
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (upper left)
oil on canvas
32 x 40 in. (81.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1918.

Provenance

The artist.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

"Art Reception at Normal School," Daily Local News, West Chester, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1923, p. 6.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, London, 2008, p. 740, no. L.127, illustrated.

Exhibited

West Chester, Pennsylvania, West Chester University, Normal School, November 1923.

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Lot Essay

N.C. Wyeth painted views of the Forsythe family property in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania at least three times in his career. Their hillside was along the Wilmington and Northern Rairoad just below Brinton's Bridge and had a view overlooking the Brandywine. The present work, likely painted out of doors, was followed by a larger version of a nearly identical view, titled Brandywine Valley (circa 1918, private collection).

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