Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Still Life with Bottle, Fruit, and Geranium
Alternate Title(s):Flowers and Fruit
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1935 / 1938
Dimensions:
34 1/8 × 40 3/16 in. (86.7 × 102.1 cm)
West Chester University, Permanent Art Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.923
Research Number: NCW: 923
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); partial label nailed to stretcher member: Detach this stub and fix to back of work / Title:(in handwriting)Flowers and F (torn)
ProvenanceThe artist
Exhibition HistoryWest Chester, PA, 1938(2), no. 52 as "Flowers and Fruit"
References
George H. Straley, "Sale of Pippin's Painting Stirs County Art Leaders," (West Chester, PA) Daily Local News, Oct. 27, 1938, p. 2; "College Purchases N. C. Wyeth Painting," (West Chester, PA] Daily Local News, Oct. 28, 1938, p. 1; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), S.29, p. 794
Curatorial RemarksThis painting attests to Wyeth's continued fascination with the reflection of light off different materials; the reflection of the Palladian-style window in the artist's studio is visible in the bottle. The bowl in the picture is undoubtedly drawn from one of a set of similar bowls found in the kitchen of the N. C. Wyeth house (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4721).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from art work
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmayer, 3/2001