Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (the wild man peering from behind a tree trunk)
Alternate Title(s):The wild man
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sight: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (23.8 × 16.2 cm)
Collection of the Christian C. Sanderson Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.1059
Research Number: NCW: 1059
InscribedNone evident
ProvenanceThe artist; probably gift to Christian C. Sanderson
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222 as "The wild man."
Curatorial RemarksThe artist completed all of the pen and ink drawings for The Mysterious Island during the first two weeks of August, 1918 (NCW to HZW, 8/14/1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w negative directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2004