Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The girl's heart seemed to stop beating. The horses plodded through the leafy aisles, glorious with colors of the Autumn woods, but she saw none of them.
Alternate Title(s):"You are mine, and neither life nor death shall take you from me!"
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1653
Research Number: NCW: 1653
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 258; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.433, 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:image from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006