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Lot Essay
This painting was illustrated in a Winchester Repeating Arms Company calendar.
N.C. Wyeth refers to The Moose Hunters in a letter to his friend Joseph Chapin dated November 11, 1919. He wrote: "In the meantime opportunities in the illustrating field have piled in beyond anything I ever experienced, particularly for the advertising houses. To date I have turned down all the latter with the exception of a single painting for the Winchester Rifle." (as quoted in D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Drawings, New York, 1972, p. 141) Allen and Allen note that The Moose Hunters was not Wyeth's only commission for that firm; he had painted another scene for a Winchester calendar in 1912, with a bear as the quarry.
This work is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
N.C. Wyeth refers to The Moose Hunters in a letter to his friend Joseph Chapin dated November 11, 1919. He wrote: "In the meantime opportunities in the illustrating field have piled in beyond anything I ever experienced, particularly for the advertising houses. To date I have turned down all the latter with the exception of a single painting for the Winchester Rifle." (as quoted in D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Drawings, New York, 1972, p. 141) Allen and Allen note that The Moose Hunters was not Wyeth's only commission for that firm; he had painted another scene for a Winchester calendar in 1912, with a bear as the quarry.
This work is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.