Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
" 'Twas me that stowed them in the dory."
Alternate Title(s):The Life Boat
Medium: Oil on canvas in black and white
Date: 1907
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.651
Research Number: NCW: 651
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 07 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, probably until 1919; Mrs. A. N. Wyeth, Needham, MA; Wyeth family until at least 1946
Exhibition Historyprobably Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 57, as "The Life Boat"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 230, 274; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.194, p. 167
Curatorial RemarksWyeth solicited this subject matter from Scribner's. "The other day I wrote to...Mr. Chapin asking him to let me try a marine story some time (sic) (I have gradually grown intensely enthusiastic over the New England fisherman's life and marine work) and then the very next day he called me...and asked me to take a sea story by "Connolly" (the leading marine writer of to-day)" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Dear Mama, I started out the New Year poorly...," dated in another hand Jan. 13, 1907, Wyeth Family Archives).
Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 57, was titled "The Life Boat, from Scribner's Magazine 1907," with a sale price of a hefty $1,000.00 (most of the other prices were in the 300-700$ range). This is the only picture of such a boat published in Scribner's for that year.
Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 57, was titled "The Life Boat, from Scribner's Magazine 1907," with a sale price of a hefty $1,000.00 (most of the other prices were in the 300-700$ range). This is the only picture of such a boat published in Scribner's for that year.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:from printed image (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Echelmeyer