Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (unpublished illustration for Snake and Hawk)
Alternate Title(s):Snake and Hawk
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1922
Dimensions:
32 × 34 in. (81.3 × 86.4 cm)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Reynolds
Accession number: SUPP2000.1273
Research Number: NCW: 1273
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); lower right: To my Friend Kamp / from / N. C. W.; on reverse, Newman Galleries (Philadelphia) label
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Anton Kamp, to at least 1972; Private collection, Aston, PA, by 1979; (with Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, and sold 1986); [?]; (Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, 1990)
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. 137; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.933, p. 446, 447
Curatorial RemarksThe descriptions of the two main characters in "Snake and Hawk" correspond with the figures in the painting. Towards the end of the story, the following description of a room in a prison is given: "A table of carved wood, quite high, very long....a snow of papers on it that glittered like ice in the shine of the four tall candlesticks of silver."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Gregory R. Staley Photography, 4/2005