Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Golden Gate in the Wall of Jerusalem With a Jewish Cemetery in the Foreground
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1883
Research Number: NCW: 1883
InscribedNear lower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 573; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 271; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.736, p. 376, 377
Curatorial RemarksThis was third in a series of four paintings depicting the British occupation of Jerusalem, in which the artist tried "to bring out dramatically the sharp contrast of the new as against the old" (Wyeth, ed., p. 573).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/7/2006