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Newell Convers Wyeth American, 1882-1945 Worm Fence (Cart Track at Rocky Hill) Bears signature N. C. Wyeth (lr) Oil on canvas 25 1/4 x 30 inches Provenance: The artist Mrs. N. C. Wyeth Carolyn Wyeth Private collection, Atlanta, GA Literature: N. C. Wyeth, The Wyeths; the letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945, edited by Betsy James Wyeth, Boston, 1971 In the N.C. Wyeth archives at the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, this work is identified as Worm Fence in Carolyn Wyeth's inventory of the her father's studio. The painting is thought to date to the early spring of 1911, shortly after the artist purchased a property in Chadds Ford known as Rocky Hill, but before the family homestead was built, construction on which began in May of that year. The impressionistic style of this work is similar to that of the views Wyeth exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in November, 1912. This painting is listed in the online catalogue of Wyeth's work maintained by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy as number 1517, under the title Cart Track at Rocky Hill. The catalogue notes that the signature is not in the artist's hand, adding that "It would seem that Wyeth did not generally sign his impressionist landscapes from this period. Many were signed by the artist's daughter Carolyn or his son Andrew when they were sold after the artist's death (see C. B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, 2008, p. 840)." C Property of a New York Collector