Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (the Chimneys)
Alternate Title(s):The "Chimneys."
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sight: 7 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (18.4 × 24.8 cm)
Needham Free Public Library, Needham, Massachusetts
Accession number: SUPP2000.619
Research Number: NCW: 619
Inscribedon reverse: "Mysterious Island, N. C. W."
ProvenanceThe artist; John Denys (II) and Etta Zirngiebel; their daughter, Jesse Zirngiebel Benson, to ca. 1974
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222 as "The 'Chimneys.'"
Curatorial RemarksThe artist completed all of the pen and ink drawings for The Mysterious Island during the first two weeks of August, 1918 (NCW to HZW, 8/14/1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w photograph directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Stephen Morrison, 10/2004