Newell Convers Wyeth
Sheep Herder

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sheep Herder
  • After Their Manner, They Had Turned Their Tails to the Wind, and Were Drifting Ahead of the Storm.
Date1908
PlaceUnited States
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 36 1/2 × 23 3/4 in. (92.7 × 60.3 cm)
Frame: 41 1/8 × 28 5/8 × 2 in. (104.5 × 72.7 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Mullin
Object number59.26
Non exposé

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Department
American Art
Object Type
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Mullin, Corpus Christi, Texas, until donated to the museum on December 22, 1959.
Exhibition HistoryCity of Houston, Office of the Mayor, 3 April 1978 "for an indefinite period of time".

"Great American Story-Tellers," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, November 9, 1979–January 13, 1980.

"The Wyeths Across Texas," Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, September 7–December 9, 2012; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, January 27–April 28, 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed "N.C. WYETH" (underlined), recto lower right

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