Mrs. Louderer and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Mrs. Louderer and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy

Date: 1914
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1808
Research Number: NCW: 1808
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 220; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.525, p. 292, 293; Jason Williams, "Competing Visions: The Alternate Wests of Elinor Pruitt Stewart and N. C. Wyeth," pub. in Western American Literature, vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 2010), p. 363-386;
Curatorial RemarksThis story was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct, 1913-Feb. 1914, April 1914) without illustrations, and published by Houghton Mifflin in book form in May, 1914. The commission is not mentioned in the artist's letters, nor are there relevant extant letters in the Houghton Mifflin Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:web: BRM staff, 11/2005; hardcover, Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2006