Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Kidnapped, title page illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
39 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (100.3 × 80 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Windfall Memorial, Gift of Clement R. Hoopes, 1977
Accession number: 77.2
Research Number: NCW: 76
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / © CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, through at least 1931; [?]; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY); (?); Clement R. Hoopes, West Grove, PA and Delray Beach, FL
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 60; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 9; Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 19; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 65; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(1); Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
References
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers, illustrated vol. 7, p. 7 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1968); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 218; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 202, b/w illustration p. 198; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.464, p. 268-269
Curatorial RemarksNotes 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 (Brandywine River Museum of Art, N. C. Wyeth House and Studio Collection, NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2000