Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Age grows calculating, but youth is spendthrift in its generosity. Even if the boy trudged home hungry, he intended that Jesus should be fed. He gave his evening meal to the Master
Alternate Title(s):The Boy with the Basket; The Boy with the Basket of Loaves and Fishes
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1929
Dimensions:
43 × 32 1/4 in. (109.2 × 81.9 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Gift of Lydia B. Betts and Elinor Betts Hirzel, 1991, in honor of Dr. and Mrs. William W. Betts
Accession number: 91.14
Research Number: NCW: 971
InscribedLower right: To Dr. William Betts / and family / N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, stamped on stretcher, upper left: Property of / Good Housekeeping Magaine
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to family of Dr. William Betts, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1930(1), no. 38, as "The Boy with the Basket of Loaves and Fishes"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1113, p. 519
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/2000