N.C. Wyeth

Canada Geese in Spring

oil on canvas

107½ by 156¼ in.

273.1 by 396.9 cm.

Executed in 1941.

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N.C. Wyeth
Canada Geese in Spring

oil on canvas

107½ by 156¼ in.

273.1 by 396.9 cm.

Executed in 1941.

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York

Exhibition

New York, Metropolitan Life Gallery; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas Gilcrease Institute; Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas Art Center; Albany, New York, New York State Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute & Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, N. C. Wyeth, The Met Life Murals, 1985-88, no. 11, illustrated n.p.

Literature

"The Days of the Pilgrims Live Again in Our Murals," The Home Office (publication of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.), vol. 23, no. 7, December 1941, pp. 8-9

N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1941 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum of Art Library)

Douglas Allen & Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, pp. 169-172

Robert San Souci, N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims, San Francisco, California, 1991, illustrated n.p.

Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, London, 2008, no. M.66, pp. 628-29, illustrated in color p. 628