Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Still Life with Peppers and Eggplant
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925 / 1934
Dimensions:
41 3/4 × 47 1/2 in. (106 × 120.7 cm)
Private collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.213
Research Number: NCW: 213
InscribedScratched into paint, lower left: N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1961; gift to the present owner
Exhibition HistoryProbably Bridgeport, CT, 1974, no. NC 7; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Harvest," Sept. 6 - Nov. 24, 1974; Princeton, NJ, 1977, no. 5; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, b/w illustration p. 53, no. 42; Morristown, NJ, 1983, no. 10
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 81; Mary Edith Hinshaw, diary, summer 1934 (unpublished but excerpted in "The Window," publication of W. H. Moring, Jr. Arts Center, Asheboro, NC, Fall 1997, vol. 1, issue 4); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), S.13, p. 788
Curatorial RemarksResearch for the Chadds Ford 1982 exhibition, which included consultation with Andrew Wyeth, resulted in the ca. 1925 date. Mary Edith Hinshaw, a visitor to Wyeth's studio during the summer of 1934 recorded in her diary this description of the painting, "a still-life with eggplant and peppers - a jug and a glass jar. He said he tried to show the resiliency of the pepper, and the "thump" of the eggplant." Both the jug (NCWS.95.2087) and the glass carafe (NCWS.95.1544) remain in the artist's studio (Brandywine River Museum).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 7/13/2005