Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and so he bare it forth
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., 1992
Accession number: 92.8.4
Research Number: NCW: 226
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); lower left: © C.S.S.; on canvas on reverse, lower left: Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917-1975; [Frank E. Fowler]; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., 1975-1991
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Princeton, NJ, 1977, no. 22; Harrisburg, PA, William Penn Memorial Museum, "A Salute to Pennsylvania's Artistic Heritage," March 16 - May 13, 1979; Lititz, PA, 1995; Lubbock, TX, 1999; Easton, MD, Academy of the Arts, "America's Storytellers: N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle", Dec. 2, 1999 - Jan. 22, 2000; Harrisburg, PA, Governor's Residence, "The Wyeths in Pennsylvania: Three Generations," April 3 - July 31, 2000; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, "Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights," Nov. 28, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015; 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. 112
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 209; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.661, p. 344-345
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of the Boy's King Arthur that Wyeth read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.171, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908, Illustrations by Alfred Kappes) and marked with notes as he selected the incidents to picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting