Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The books that are written about Him as the Son of God almost forget that His favorite title for Himself was the Son of Man.
Alternate Title(s):The Boy Christ in the Carpenter's Shop; The Boy Jesus
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
40 1/4 × 32 in. (102.2 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection, Huntsville, AL
Accession number: SUPP2000.975
Research Number: NCW: 975
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Provenance(?); Joseph and Patricia Bebin, Detroit, MI, as of 1965
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1925
References
Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, How One Man Changed the World (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1935), frontispiece illustration as "The Boy Christ in the Carpenter Shop"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 279, illustration p. 73; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.991, p. 475
Curatorial RemarksAccording to a letter to his mother, Wyeth delivered this canvas to a "very enthusiastic" art editor at Woman's Home Companion by August 15, 1924 (NCW to Henriette Zirngielbel Wyeth, Aug. 15, 1924, Boston Public Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of High Museum of Art Regional Conservation Center, Atlanta