Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Legends of Charlemagne, cover illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923 / 1924
Dimensions:
24 × 25 3/8 in. (61 × 64.5 cm)
The family of Nancy Boyd Sokoloff
Accession number: SUPP2000.174
Research Number: NCW: 174
InscribedLower right: .W.
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to James Boyd and Katharine Lamont Boyd; by descent to Nancy Boyd Sokoloff, and family; (New York, NY, Bonhams, Nov. 19, 2018, lot no. )
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 108; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 42, with error in owner's name
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 200; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.944, p. 451
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unillustrated earlier edition of this book that the artist read and annotated in preparation for the commission (NCWS.95.183).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Bernard C. Meyers, 9/2005