Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Hurricane, dust-jacket illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1935
Dimensions:
40 × 36 in. (101.6 × 91.4 cm)
Collection of Little, Brown and Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.683
Research Number: NCW: 683
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceLittle, Brown and Company, Boston, MA and by corporate merger with Hachette Book Group, to 2014; (New York, NY, Sotheby's, Nov. 20, 2014, lot no. 53; did not sell); (New York, NY, Sotheby's, June 9, 2016, lot no. 221);
References
Percy Hutchison, "A South Sea Island Story by Nordhoff and Hall," New York Times, Feb. 9, 1936, illus. p. BR 4; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 225; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1202, p. 546
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Michael Gould