Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Saturday Evening Post, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Portrait of a Lumberjack
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1908
Dimensions:
22 × 22 in. (55.9 × 55.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.497
Research Number: NCW: 497
InscribedLower left: W
Provenance(American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, ca. 1994); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, to 2002; (Frank E. Fowler, 2002)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings. Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 272; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.227, p. 182
Curatorial RemarksThe date of the painting is based on its appearance in an issue in which two of the four illustrations published are dated 1908 by the artist.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer