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N.C. Wyeth

Herons in Summer

oil on canvas

82 by 156⅞ in.

208.3 by 398.5 cm.

Executed in 1941.

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N.C. Wyeth
Herons in Summer

oil on canvas

82 by 156⅞ in.

208.3 by 398.5 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, November 1985-88, no. 9, illustrated n.p. (as Egrets in Summer)

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N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1941 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum of Art Library)

Gene Byrnes, A Complete Guide to Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning, and Painting, New York, 1948, p. 328, illustrated in a photograph of mural partially complete

Douglas Allen & Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, pp. 169-172, illustrated p. 171

Peggy Robbins, "The Magic of N. C. Wyeth," South Carolina Wildlife, January-February 1979, illustrated p. 16

Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth, New York, 1992, illustrated pp. 80-81

Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, London, 2008, no. M.71, illustrated in color p. 631

Ex. Cat., Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, fig. 2, illustrated in color p. 96