Feb 24
The Last of the Chesnuts
Artist: N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)
Date: ca. 1916
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, United States
Description
The chestnut blight was accidentally introduced to the United States about 1904. Letters N. C. Wyeth wrote as early as March 1912, document the effect the chestnut blight had on the trees on his property in Chadds Ford: "Our chestnut trees are bound to go! So say the tree experts. It makes me sick to think of it" (Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945. Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 409)
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