Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
She was as slim as a boy, and danced with a lightness and suppleness of body and arms and hands unlike anything I have ever seen
Alternate Title(s):Dancing Girl
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
34 1/4 × 36 in. (87 × 91.4 cm)
From the collection of Houghton Mifflin Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.1305
Research Number: NCW: 1305
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH
Exhibition HistoryNeedham, MA, 1968, no. 17, as "Dancing Girl"; Needham, MA, 1982, no numbers
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 264; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.958, p. 455
Curatorial RemarksHoughton Mifflin originally intended to publish all the illustrations for Silk in their hardbound edition (1923), but the author didn't want to risk his reputation on an expensive book (the illustrations would have added an additional .50 to the $2.00 price of the book) and the publisher feared attracting readers searching for sensation (see Roger L. Scaife to NCW, July 19, 1923, Houghton Mifflin Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Michael Gould