"Jest tryin' a little innercent game"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

"Jest tryin' a little innercent game"

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
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Known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1886
Research Number: NCW: 1886
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / -1905- (from reproduction)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 271; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.70, p. 123
Curatorial RemarksThe artist wrote to his mother on Feb. 6, 1905, that the Post had sent him this story to illustrate.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer