Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Termagant Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long skinny arm, in derision
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
40 1/8 × 32 in. (101.9 × 81.3 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Richard S. du Pont, 1976
Accession number: 76.14.2
Research Number: NCW: 44
InscribedLower left: WYETH; on reverse of stretcher, label: NO. 67869 / PICTURE; remnants of Scribner's label; remnants of label from Wilmington, DE, gift shop
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (?); Clifton Waller Barrett, Charlottesville, VA, ?-1971 (Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1968-1970); Richard S. du Pont, Greenville, DE, 1971-76
Exhibition HistoryBrookings, SD, 1973, no.22; Bridgeport, CT, 1974, no. NC 4; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); New York, NY, U.S. Mission to the UN, (Art in the Embassies Program), Aug. 2, 1976- Jan. 26, 1977; Princeton, NJ, l977, no. 31; Greenville, SC, l979, no. 73; Wilmington, DE, 1981; Cedar Rapids, IA, 1990; Lubbock, TX, 1999
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 202; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 210, b/w illustration p. 203; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.758, p. 387
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and marked an edition published by A. L. Burt (NCWS.95.4334, N. C. Wyeth House and Studio Collection, Brandywine River Museum of Art).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer 10/2000