Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Portrait of Henriette Wyeth
Alternate Title(s):Portrait of Henriette as a child
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1912
Dimensions:
21 × 15 1/2 in. (53.3 × 39.4 cm)
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum,
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis, Fort Worth, Texas, 2000
Accession number: SUPP2000.139
Research Number: NCW: 139
ProvenanceHenriette Wyeth Hurd; (Hurd-La Rinconada Gallery, San Patricio, NM, 1995); Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis, Fort Worth, TX, to 2000
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1973(1); Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "The Wyeths, America's Artists," Jan. 15-April 17, 2011; Doylestown, James A. Michener Art Museum, 1/20 - 5/6/2018, "Magical & Real, Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd," checklist, vol. 1, p. 106, and frontispiece, illus. in color;
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.14, p. 804
Curatorial RemarksThis portrait of Henriette Wyeth (1907 - 1992) is considered unfinished. It is dated by the similarity of the sitter's appearence in a ca. 1913 photograph of Henriette (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.6494).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Farnsworth Art Museum