Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Salute to Adventurers, dust-jacket illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas on hardboard (or oil on canvas board)
Date: 1930
Dimensions:
22 1/2 × 27 1/4 in. (57.2 × 69.2 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1052
Research Number: NCW: 1052
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); verso, stamped diagonally across support: St. Thomas
Provenance(?); Private collection and descended in family, to 2011;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 224; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1148, p. 529
Curatorial RemarksThis commission is well documented in letters between Roger L. Scaife of Houghton Mifflin Co. and the artist, Houghton Mifflin Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Qoro, LLC