Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Self-portrait with Palette
Alternate Title(s):N. C. Wyeth Self Portrait
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1909-1912
Dimensions:
40 × 30 1/8 in. (101.6 × 76.5 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.135
Research Number: NCW: 135
InscribedOn stretcher, upper left and lower right: CCAA / 93
ProvenanceMrs. N. C. Wyeth; Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA, ?-1981
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1968, no. 25, as "N. C. Wyeth Self Portrait"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 64, as "Self-portrait with Palette"; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "A Family Paints Itself," Feb. 9 - May 13, 1973; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Brandywine Valley Heritage," 1978; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 37, frontispiece illus. in color; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1997, no numbers; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 137
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 93; Christopher Hyde, "N. C. Wyeth's Maine Legacy," Down East The Magazine of Maine, (Nov. 1982), illus. p. 28; M. Stephen Doherty, "N. C. Wyeth Centennial Exhibition," American Artist Magazine, (Aug. 1982), illus. b/w p. 62; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.11, p. 802, 803; Toby Thompson, "Perspective: N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945)," Western Art and Architecture, vol. 8, no. 6 (Dec. 2014/Jan. 2015), illus. in color, p. 98;
Curatorial RemarksThe dating of this portrait is partially based on its similarities with a formal photo portrait of the artist, taken by William Shewell Ellis and dated 1912. The photograph is reproduced on the back of the dust-jacket of David Michaelis's N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (Knopf, 1998) where it is misdated and misattributed. A snapshot shows this painting hanging on the west wall of the artist's main studio; the photograph is filed among correspondence from the fall of 1914 (after NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, "I'm writing this letter to you..." and dated in another hand Nov. 18, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photography files