Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
'Genie had grasped Philip's saddle, and was clinging there. "Please! Please!" she begged. "Oh, my god, Philip, he'll kill you!"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Private collection, Winston-Salem, NC
Accession number: SUPP2000.679
Research Number: NCW: 679
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of canvas: 5 1/8 wide / 133 screen
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; descended in Wyeth family to 1991
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Brandywine Heritage Gallery," Sept. 9 - Nov. 19, 1978; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Romance in Conflict, N. C. Wyeth's Civil War Paintings," Jan. 22-March 20, 2011
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 258; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.437, p. 258
Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:WFUSM Photography, 1/2005