Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Brig "Covenant" in a Fog
All afternoon, when I went on deck, I saw men and officers listening hard over the bulwarks
Alternate Title(s):The Brig "Covenant"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
The New York Public Library
Accession number: SUPP2000.166
Research Number: NCW: 166
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); lower right: © CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1913-1916
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 1966, no. 29, as The Brig "Covenant"; poss. Chadds Ford, PA, 1972 (NYPL records and BRM loan form--not listed in exh. cat.); Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.468, p. 270
Curatorial RemarksThe artist noted in a letter that he was present when "ten of my originals (were) installed permanently, in the children's reading room of the New York Public Library on Fifth Ave" (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, dated in another hand Feb. 26, 1916, Wyeth Family Archives).
Notes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Notes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Paul Mutino Photography, 7/25/2006