GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In addition to artistic training, N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) passed his great admiration for Winslow Homer (1836-1910) to his youngest son, Andrew. The Wyeth family summered in Maine, and the rocky coastline with its strong, diligent residents had attracted Homer in the late 19th century. Andrew Wyeth, in turn, studied Homer's maritime imagery and produced his own views of the terrain and inhabitants.
Wyeth's earliest exhibited works, including Jim Smalley, Fisherman, follow in the footsteps of Homer's painted seascapes. After his artistic debut in 1937, the twenty-year-old artist continued to refine his skills, eventually adopting tempera paint as his preferred medium for large-scale paintings. Jim Smalley, Fisherman represents the start of Wyeth's seventy years as a successful and immensely popular American artist.
Emily Schiller, Digital Collections Content Coordinator, 2015.
NOTES
This note was tagged #routed in June 2015 and Sue's revisions (in a Word doc created by ASG) have been applied to the note as of October 2015. As of January 2017 I am adding the #draft tag to this note so that it is harvested to Google Drive. Once I am sure that all pending TMS or Piction data entry is complete, I will remove the #routed tag, add the #complete tag, and move the Google Doc to Queta's folder so that it is not re-routed to Sue.
TMS record currently has one bibliographic source. More could be added from the object file and using the TMS bibliographies of other Andrew Wyeth works (1949.7, 1962.11, 1962.87).
No existing text entries in TMS.
Provenance and exhibition history were entered into the TMS record.
The library's artist file contains valuable research materials- not all of which are entered into TMS or present in the object file. It would be helpful if the library object file was cross-referenced (or duplicated) in the primary object file and indicated in the TMS record in some way.
Additional- fun fact- the possibility of overlapping with his father's Road to Jones House?
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
I noticed that the house in the background of this work appears to be very similar to the house shown in N.C. Wyeth's Road to the Jones House (1940, 1961.118). I did not see any documentation mentioning this in either object file but the father and son would have known the same neighbors and locations around their Maine home.
The N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonne online returned the following painting when I searched for "Smalley." It is dated around the same time as Andrew Wyeth's Jim Smalley, Fisherman and the additional research note (inserted below thumbnail) supports the possibility of overlapping subjects in Andrew Wyeth's early works.
"Andrew Wyeth recalled that the figures in this painting portray neighbors Jim Smalley and Harry Lowell. The scene is along Horse Point Road in Port Clyde, Maine, and as such should be considered a candidate for the painting in the 1938 Utica, NY, exhibition entitled "The Road to Horse Point" (see "Exhibit of Wyeth Paintings Opens At Institute Today," Utica Daily Press, March 12, 1938, p. 14). The present title is descriptive and has no archival authority." [N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné (2008) online through the Brandywine Museum, The Morris House, Port Clyde, Maine (c. 1937, oil on canvas, Farnsworth Art Museum), http://brandywine.doetech.net/Detlobjps.cfm?ObjectID=1531528&rec_num=1&From=obj_key.cfm#42. Accessed January 16, 2015.]
Catalogue essays specific to object
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography -
Produced- Port Clyde, Maine: TGN: 7014269
Depicted- Port Clyde, Maine: TGN: 7014269
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
painting
portrait
seashore
electric cables
power lines
utility poles
pipe
hat
blue
green
gray
clouds
coat
fisherman
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1938: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Munger Fund [1] [2]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
[2] Works of art purchased by the Mrs. Stephen I. Munger Endowment are placed in the custody of the Dallas Museum of Art for the purpose of exhibition. The title to all works of art purchased by the Munger Fund remains with the Fund.
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
John Wilmerding, "Derivation and Originality in the Art of Andrew Wyeth," Bromberg lecture series, September 24, 1987; in conjunction with An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, September 29- November 29, 1987. (Wilmerding was the Deputy Director of the national gallery of Art, and curator of concurrent NGA exhibition "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures," File name: WyethWillmerding, original format- U-matic, KCA-60XBR.
12936249: UMO
12936257: UMO
Object number added to Piction (1/24/2017)
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ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
FUN FACTS
This modest portrait of a family neighbor was displayed in 1937 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The same year, Andrew Wyeth received wide critical acclaim for his first one-man exhibition at MacBeth Galleries (New York City) where he showed a selection of other Maine watercolors.
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General Description
In addition to artistic training, N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) passed his great admiration for Winslow Homer (1836-1910) to his youngest son, Andrew. The Wyeth family summered in Maine, and the rocky coastline with its strong, diligent residents had attracted Homer in the late 19th century. Andrew Wyeth, in turn, studied Homer's maritime imagery and produced his own views of the terrain and inhabitants.
Wyeth's earliest exhibited works, including Jim Smalley, Fisherman, follow in the footsteps of Homer's painted seascapes. After his artistic debut in 1937, the twenty-year-old artist continued to refine his skills, eventually adopting tempera paint as his preferred medium for large-scale paintings. Jim Smalley, Fisherman represents the start of Wyeth's seventy years as a successful and immensely popular American artist.
Emily Schiller, Digital Collections Content Coordinator, 2015.
Fun Facts
This modest portrait of a family neighbor was displayed in 1937 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The same year, Andrew Wyeth received wide critical acclaim for his first one-man exhibition at MacBeth Galleries (New York City) where he showed a selection of other Maine watercolors.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
This note was tagged #routed in June 2015 and Sue's revisions (in a Word doc created by ASG) have been applied to the note as of October 2015. As of January 2017 I am adding the #draft tag to this note so that it is harvested to Google Drive. Once I am sure that all pending TMS or Piction data entry is complete, I will remove the #routed tag, add the #complete tag, and move the Google Doc to Queta's folder so that it is not re-routed to Sue.
TMS record currently has one bibliographic source. More could be added from the object file and using the TMS bibliographies of other Andrew Wyeth works (1949.7, 1962.11, 1962.87).
No existing text entries in TMS.
Provenance and exhibition history were entered into the TMS record.
The library's artist file contains valuable research materials- not all of which are entered into TMS or present in the object file. It would be helpful if the library object file was cross-referenced (or duplicated) in the primary object file and indicated in the TMS record in some way.
Additional- fun fact- the possibility of overlapping with his father's Road to Jones House?
Removed TMS object tag because rule exists.
I noticed that the house in the background of this work appears to be very similar to the house shown in N.C. Wyeth's Road to the Jones House (1940, 1961.118). I did not see any documentation mentioning this in either object file but the father and son would have known the same neighbors and locations around their Maine home.
The N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonne online returned the following painting when I searched for "Smalley." It is dated around the same time as Andrew Wyeth's Jim Smalley, Fisherman and the additional research note (inserted below thumbnail) supports the possibility of overlapping subjects in Andrew Wyeth's early works.
"Andrew Wyeth recalled that the figures in this painting portray neighbors Jim Smalley and Harry Lowell. The scene is along Horse Point Road in Port Clyde, Maine, and as such should be considered a candidate for the painting in the 1938 Utica, NY, exhibition entitled "The Road to Horse Point" (see "Exhibit of Wyeth Paintings Opens At Institute Today," Utica Daily Press, March 12, 1938, p. 14). The present title is descriptive and has no archival authority." [N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné (2008) online through the Brandywine Museum, The Morris House, Port Clyde, Maine (c. 1937, oil on canvas, Farnsworth Art Museum), http://brandywine.doetech.net/Detlobjps.cfm?ObjectID=1531528&rec_num=1&From=obj_key.cfm#42. Accessed January 16, 2015.]
Catalogue essays specific to object
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography -
Produced- Port Clyde, Maine: TGN: 7014269
Depicted- Port Clyde, Maine: TGN: 7014269
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
painting
portrait
seashore
electric cables
power lines
utility poles
pipe
hat
blue
green
gray
clouds
coat
fisherman
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1938: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Munger Fund [1] [2]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
[2] Works of art purchased by the Mrs. Stephen I. Munger Endowment are placed in the custody of the Dallas Museum of Art for the purpose of exhibition. The title to all works of art purchased by the Munger Fund remains with the Fund.
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
John Wilmerding, "Derivation and Originality in the Art of Andrew Wyeth," Bromberg lecture series, September 24, 1987; in conjunction with An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, September 29- November 29, 1987. (Wilmerding was the Deputy Director of the national gallery of Art, and curator of concurrent NGA exhibition "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures," File name: WyethWillmerding, original format- U-matic, KCA-60XBR.
12936249: UMO
12936257: UMO
Object number added to Piction (1/24/2017)
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