Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
When, next night, two horror-stricken faces peered through this doorway, the three still sat where Tsaga had left them.
Alternate Title(s):The Great Minus
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
44 1/8 × 32 1/8 in. (112.1 × 81.6 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.757
Research Number: NCW: 757
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); Attached to backing board, a sample of old canvas, stamped F. W. Weber & Co. English Plain
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1916; possibly Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, OH; (?); The Higbee Company, Cleveland, OH, to 1985
Exhibition HistoryCedar Rapids, IA, 1990; Rockland, ME, 1998, no. 74 p. 165, illus. in color p. 74
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.508, p. 289
Curatorial RemarksScribner's loaned this painting to the Cleveland publishing company of Burrows Brothers, but the archival information is not clear whether that was for reproduction or office decoration (Brandywine River Museum library, Scribner's Archives). It was not unusual for Scribner's to sell paintings through major department stores; Scribner's may have placed the painting with the Higbee Company.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, spring 2000