Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Saturday Evening Post, cover illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
38 × 26 in. (96.5 × 66 cm)
Hammer Galleries, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.1468
Research Number: NCW: 1468
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined) / 05-
ProvenanceWyeth family to at least 1969; (?); (Stuart Kingston Gallery, Wilmington, DE); Private collection, Wilmington, DE, and Camden, ME, to 1999; Frank E. Fowler; (Hammer Galleries, New York, NY, 2003); Private collection; (with Hammer Galleries, New York, NY, 2008);
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.101, p. 131
Curatorial RemarksThe cover illustration was in conjunction with an article in the issue by Arthur T. McFarlane, "On the Trail of the First Trust," with three additional illustrations by Wyeth.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/1999