Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Eight Bells
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
25 × 30 1/8 in. (63.5 × 76.5 cm)
Private collection, Essex, CT
Accession number: SUPP2000.528
Research Number: NCW: 528
Inscribedadhered to reverse on stretcher, [Knoedler's] label: No. 54827 / PICTURE; paper label adhered to top stretcher: N. C. Wyeth 54827 / "Eight Bells" / Ex. No. 31; written on reverse of top stretcher member: CA 6975; stamped on four stretcher members: BAY STATE STRETCHER / -MADE BY- / (illegible) / BOSTON-MASS
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, nos. 54827 and CA6975)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 31; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.139, p. 745
Curatorial RemarksIn September 1922, Wyeth, his brother Stimson, and his friend artist Sidney Chase spent a week in Port Clyde, staying at old sea captain's house that Chase and Wyeth had purchased together in 1920. This was the first stay of any length since the purchase, and Wyeth returned to Massachusetts (where he was then living) with nine canvases, most likely this view of the house among them. An archival photograph of the artist painting this picture is extant (Wyeth Family Archives; copy photography (P-110 ), Brandywine River Museum).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. transparency directly from painting 2. archival photograph (Brandywine River Museum, P110) of N. C. Wyeth with "Eight Bells" on the easel
Photo Credit:1. A. Vincent Scarano, 10/2000 2. photographer unknown