Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Out of the sky to her fell Kogal, with a great cry, scattering a spray of silver over the lotus blossoms
Alternate Title(s):A Garden Meeting; Overmantel, Chinese Legend
Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
Date: 1927
Dimensions:
22 3/4 × 48 1/2 in. (57.8 × 123.2 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1062
Research Number: NCW: 1062
Inscribedon backing: To Mr. & Mrs. Fester Bottomly / from N.C. Wyeth / 1931
ProvenanceThe artist; Mr. & Mrs. Fester Bottomly, 1931; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, March 11, 1992, lot no. 106, as "A Garden Meeting")
Exhibition Historyprobably Wilmington, DE, 1928(3), no. 100, as "Overmantel, Chinese Legend"; San Angelo, TX, 1993; Tyler, TX, Tyler Museum of Art, "The Wyeths Across Texas," no. 10, p. 60, illus. p. 61;
References
"Mural Painting Exhibition Opens," Wilmington (DE) Morning News, Nov. 15, 1928, p. 2; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 263; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1053, p. 498
Curatorial RemarksThe artwork on the page also included two small vignettes of mallard ducks. It is not clear if the ducks are Wyeth's work, but a printer's proof sent to the artist included the duck images (proof, Brandywine River Museum library).
Perhaps in an attempt to sell this painting Wyeth sent it to the WSFA exhibition of mural paintings in Nov. 1928, as number 100, "Overmantel, Chinese Legend." (The association of number 100 with this image is based on the horizontal orientation of the image and the "Chinese legend" subject matter.)
Among clippings and photos from the NCW studio is a close-up photo of lotus, stamped "J. Horace McFarlane Co., #12392" (Brandywine River Museum Research Center, Image Resources/Size 1/Botanical, NCWS.95.993).
Perhaps in an attempt to sell this painting Wyeth sent it to the WSFA exhibition of mural paintings in Nov. 1928, as number 100, "Overmantel, Chinese Legend." (The association of number 100 with this image is based on the horizontal orientation of the image and the "Chinese legend" subject matter.)
Among clippings and photos from the NCW studio is a close-up photo of lotus, stamped "J. Horace McFarlane Co., #12392" (Brandywine River Museum Research Center, Image Resources/Size 1/Botanical, NCWS.95.993).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Ashley Slade, 11/2002