Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Roll Up a Couple of Big Melons," Said Haney Largely. "We're All Drying to Cinders Over Here"
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1910
Research Number: NCW: 1910
InscribedBelow image: N. C. WYETH -05- (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 272; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.96, p. 130
Curatorial RemarksThis illustration has qualities of a drawing and may have been created with charcoal and water or oil-based wash on a canvas or paper support. Wyeth's correspondence does not clarify the issue. Most of his illustrations published in the Saturday Evening Post at this time, drawings and paintings alike, were usually identified in small print with the caption "Drawn by N. C. Wyeth."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/27/2005