Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"And will you stay on--after last night?"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1915
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.14
Label Copy:
One of the illustrator’s banes was the occasional cropping for publication that altered the appearance of the original artwork. As reproduced in Harper's, this painting was cropped along both sides and the top. The resulting image emphasized the figures and diminished the effect of the architecture. In this case, the artist has personal experience of the architectural details. For several summers before settling permanently in Chadds Ford, the Wyeths had rented rooms at Windtryst, a Victorian-era estate just outside the village. Windtryst was destroyed by fire on September 11, 1914, and some months later N. C. Wyeth used the ruins as a setting for this illustration.
One of the illustrator’s banes was the occasional cropping for publication that altered the appearance of the original artwork. As reproduced in Harper's, this painting was cropped along both sides and the top. The resulting image emphasized the figures and diminished the effect of the architecture. In this case, the artist has personal experience of the architectural details. For several summers before settling permanently in Chadds Ford, the Wyeths had rented rooms at Windtryst, a Victorian-era estate just outside the village. Windtryst was destroyed by fire on September 11, 1914, and some months later N. C. Wyeth used the ruins as a setting for this illustration.
Research Number: NCW: 610
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of canvas: 52745 (circled)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1997, no numbers; Rockland, 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Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 68; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.585, p. 312
Curatorial RemarksAs reproduced in Harper's, this painting was cropped along both sides and the top. The resulting image emphasized the figures and diminished the effect of the architecture.
Windtryst, the Victorian estate in Chadds Ford that the Wyeths had rented for several summers, was destroyed by fire on September 11, 1914. Some months later N. C. Wyeth used the ruins as a setting for this illustration.
Windtryst, the Victorian estate in Chadds Ford that the Wyeths had rented for several summers, was destroyed by fire on September 11, 1914. Some months later N. C. Wyeth used the ruins as a setting for this illustration.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer