Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Still Life with Iris and Oranges
Alternate Title(s):Still Life
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925 / 1935
Dimensions:
36 × 40 in. (91.4 × 101.6 cm)
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Mary M. R. Phelps, 1969
Accession number: SUPP2000.420
Research Number: NCW: 420
InscribedLower right: TO MY FRIEND BILL PHELPS / from N.C.W / (faintly) N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Collection of William and Mary M. R. Phelps, Montchanin, DE
Exhibition HistoryRoswell, NM, 1981, no number; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 40, illustration in b/w, p. 52; Greensburg, PA, Westmoreland Museum of Art, "Penn's Promise: Still Life Painting in Pennsylvania 1795-1930," May 29 - July 31, 1988, illustration, p. 88, cat. no. 116; Marietta, GA, 1998, no numbers; Portland, ME, 2000, illustration in color, fig. 16, p. 28, as "Still Life"
References
Kate F. Jennings. N. C. Wyeth (New York, NY: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illustration in color, p. 100; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), illustration in color after p. 308; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), S.16, p. 789
Curatorial RemarksThe first owner, William E. Phelps (d. 1967), was a friend of the Wyeth family. Shortly after NCW's death, he attempted but did not complete a biography of NCW; he donated a number of works by Andrew Wyeth to the Delaware Art Museum in 1964 (obit., Wilmington Morning News, Feb. 14, 1967, p. 18).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting