Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Can't we even stay friends?" he pleaded.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Destroyed, Oct. 1916
Accession number: SUPP2000.1992
Research Number: NCW: 1992
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 11 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1916; painting destroyed, Oct. 27, 1916
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.368, p. 238
Curatorial RemarksAuthor Mary Synon was particularly pleased with the illustrations for this story, citing Wyeth's "sympathetic understanding of the North Country people" (Mary Synon to NCW, Jan. 24, 1912, Wyeth Family Archives). A card in the Scribner's Archive (Brandywine River Museum libray) notes the date the painting was destroyed.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Image from printed source (tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:Web: scan by BRM staff; hardcover: Rick Echelmeyer, 5/2005