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The Slave Boy Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Slave Boy
Then, at length, when all were peacefully feeding, he sat down upon a grassy hummock and looked around him, sad, lonely, vindictive.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
47 × 33 3/4 in. (119.4 × 85.7 cm)
Collection of Mark and Debbie Henn
Accession number: SUPP2000.1410
Research Number: NCW: 1410
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / --12
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to ca. 1970; Private collection, Springfield, PA, ca. 1970 to ca. 1995; (Illustration House, New York, NY)
Exhibition History(see Chadds Ford, PA, 1967 exhibition file)
References Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 412; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 198; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.417, p. 253
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Illustration House, New York, NY