Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Self-portrait
Alternate Title(s):Self-portrait of the Young Artist
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1900
Dimensions:
24 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (62.2 × 48.9 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.308
Research Number: NCW: 308
InscribedAdhered to backing board, 1 brown label (identical to label on NCW 81): SELF-PORTRAIT / oil on canvas / Lent Anonymously
Provenance(?); Private collection, Needham, MA; [Howard Mott Rare Book Shop, Sheffield, MA, circa 1969]; Douglas Allen, Jr.;
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 8, as "Self-portrait of the Young Artist"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), b/w illustration p. 22
Curatorial RemarksAccording to Douglas Allen, Jr., this is one of a group of eight to ten items found in the attic of a house in Needham, Massachusetts, possibly "the Wyeth homestead" in the late 1960s. The group included work in oil, watercolor, charcoal and pencil, and all dated to the late 1890s. (Other items in the group include NCW 2106-NCW 2108, NCW 2660 and probably NCW 1259.) Allen sold this piece to the Wyeths shortly after purchasing it from Mott (per email, DA to CBP, 1/12/2016).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 1/2005