Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Old Woman Tost up in a Basket
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1938
Dimensions:
32 9/16 × 22 1/8 in. (82.7 × 56.2 cm)
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Childrens Literature Research Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1004
Research Number: NCW: 1004
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH; on reverse, Renaissance Panel label no. 647, dated 3/18/38; painted on panel: "THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN / TOST UP IN A BASKET" / N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; anonymous donor to present collection, 1941
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1941(2); Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 82
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers., 1972), p. 208, b/w illustration p. 137; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1246, p. 564-565
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an earlier, unillustrated edition of this book that the artist used to plan his pictures (NCWS.95.595).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Joseph Painter, 3/2003; Conservation work by Franklin Shores