Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me"
Alternate Title(s):Christ and Child
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1920
Dimensions:
sight: 37 1/8 x 33 3/8 in. (94.2 x 84.7 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.582
Research Number: NCW: 582
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH; lower left: © G & Co
ProvenanceThe artist to 1937
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1970), p. 204; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.796, p. 398
Curatorial RemarksThe Wyeth Family Archives holds a folder of heavy card stock printed on the front: With Greetings of / the Christmas season / from Ginn and Company. A reproduction of the image on separate stock is enclosed, with the legend below: (copyright) 1923, by Ginn and Company / "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto me" / From the Painting by N. C. Wyeth
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:.transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 4/2003