Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Up with your hands or we'll make this a shambles, now that we've started."
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
27 × 39 1/2 in. (68.6 × 100.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1740
Research Number: NCW: 1740
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 1969; (?); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY, 1987); private collection, Weston, CT; (New York, NY, Christie's, May 23, 2017, lot no. 66);
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1971), p. 282; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.518, p. 291
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was photographed in 1969, one of approximately 3 dozen paintings from the artist's studio that had been stored unstretched (Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonné files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Paul Mutino, 4/2005