Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The White Company
Day was already breaking in the east, and Sir Nigel's company, three hundred strong, were on their way for the defile.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
40 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (102.9 × 77.5 cm)
Mr. & Mrs. John V. E. Hardy, Vero Beach, FL
Accession number: SUPP2000.267
Research Number: NCW: 267
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; (? to mid-1960s)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 204; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.925, p. 444
Curatorial RemarksSee letter NCW to Sidney M. Chase, Aug. 3, 1922, "The reading of the Chronicles of Froissart (all of them) was a very bright spot in the preparation of The White Company" (letter, Wyeth Family Archives, and see two copies of The Chronicles illustrated by Alfred Knapp, NCWS.95. 3424 and .4319, Brandywine River Museum). All images for The White Company were copyrighted by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting, 11/2004
Photo Credit:C. J. Walker Photography, 11/2004