Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
She belonged in this garden, in the checker of light and shadow and exotic color, slender like a young bamboo and rounded as a purple passion fruit.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
36 3/16 × 40 in. (91.9 × 101.6 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.17
Label Copy:
From his very earliest years as an illustrator, N. C. Wyeth was a master colorist, a skill he refined as color printing became more common and more accurate in the first decade of the twentieth century. Even in the late teens, however, the less expensive magazines would print colored paintings in black and white to keep per-issue costs down. It is unclear whether Wyeth knew before beginning the painting that the publisher planned to print the image, which is so dependent in on its palette, in black and white.
From his very earliest years as an illustrator, N. C. Wyeth was a master colorist, a skill he refined as color printing became more common and more accurate in the first decade of the twentieth century. Even in the late teens, however, the less expensive magazines would print colored paintings in black and white to keep per-issue costs down. It is unclear whether Wyeth knew before beginning the painting that the publisher planned to print the image, which is so dependent in on its palette, in black and white.
Research Number: NCW: 937
InscribedLower left: WYETH (underlined); On reverse, written in pencil on canvas: East of Eastward / Picture by N. C. Wyeth / "By Jing!" breathed Mr. Tumstal. / Gal. 3 / (18th paragraph); elsewhere on reverse of canvas: Pd October 20, 1917; in black along top stretcher member: --- 6 1/2 ---; both side stretchers stamped: FROM / HADERER CO. / ART & GIFT SHOP / 225 W. 9TH ST., WILMINGTON, DEL.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryRockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 43; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 256; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.691, p. 359
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/2006