Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
At the Cards in Cluny's Cage
But Alan and Cluny were most of the time at the cards
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Russell G. Colt, 1986
Accession number: 86.7.5
Research Number: NCW: 164
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY (Retail Dept.); Mr. Russell G. Colt, New York, NY; Mrs. Russell G. Colt to 1986
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 100; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 71; Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 23, illus. in color p. 106; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990 (1); Akron, OH, Akron Museum of Art, June 15 - Sept. 1, 2002, and Lawrence, KS, Spencer Museum of Art, Sept. 21 - Nov. 17, 2002, "N. C. Wyeth from the Brandywine River Museum Collection"; New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art, "Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators, 1850-1950," Dec. 12, 2008 - Feb. 22, 2009 (also Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, Sept. 6 - Nov. , 2008); Stockbridge, MA, Norman Rockwell Museum of American Illustration, June 9-Oct. 28, 2018, "Keepers of the Flame: Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative Tradition," p. 104
References
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers, illustrated vol. 7, p. 105 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1968); Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 437; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 202, illus. in color p. 204, illus. b/w p. 19; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.475, p. 276, 277
Curatorial RemarksIn a letter to his mother dated July 29, 1913, the artist described the session in which John Weller posed as the model for Cluny Macpherson playing cards with Alan Breck (Betsy James Wyeth, ed., p. 437). Weller had worked for Howard Pyle and frequently worked for Wyeth.
Notes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Notes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:No credit on transparency