Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Discovery
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1937
Dimensions:
23 1/2 × 37 1/2 in. (59.7 × 95.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.606
Research Number: NCW: 606
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceGinn and Company, Boston, MA; by corporate merger to present owner
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 205; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1232, p. 560
Curatorial RemarksThis painting is the only one in the "World of Music" series to be executed in a horizontal format, and it is likely that it was originally conceived to be an endsheet design. Letters the artist wrote in June 1937 refer to the "Discovery book lining" or "the Ginn lining" (Wyeth Family Archives). All three volumes in the series were published with undecorated endsheets. The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.82) of the composition drawing that was used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:© Russ Lappa