Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Man Carrying Tree; Christmas Tree-Chadds Ford
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
41 3/4 × 31 1/4 in. (106 × 79.4 cm)
Private collection, Midland, TX
Accession number: SUPP2000.1114
Research Number: NCW: 1114
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH / N. C. WYETH
Provenance(Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, as "Man Carrying Tree"); (Baker Gallery of Fine Art, Lubbock, TX, Dec. 1970, as "Christmas Tree-Chadds Ford"); Tommye A. Moss, Odessa, TX
Exhibition HistoryMidland, TX, Museum of the Southwest, "The Wyeth Family," Jan. 8 - Feb. 6, 1973
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.934, p. 447
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Hendershot Photography, 7/2004