Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
title unknown (galleon off a coast)
Alternate Title(s):Sailing Away; Spanish Galleon, Sailing Chesapeake Bay
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
36 × 42 in. (91.4 × 106.7 cm)
Collection of Phillip Grace
Accession number: SUPP2000.1183
Research Number: NCW: 1183
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1922
ProvenanceMrs. Julean Harris, to 1958; (Knoedler Galleries, 1958-1972, # A6886, as "Spanish Galleon, Sailing Chesapeake Bay"); William B. Wilson, Webster Groves, MO, 1972; (?); (unidentified dealer, Beverly Hills, CA, 1972)
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers as "untitled (galleon sailing off a coast)"; Tokyo, Japan, United States Embassy (Art in Embassies Program), May 2007 - Dec. 2008, illus. p. 46 as "Sailing Away"
References
Arpi Ermoyan, Famous American Illustrators (Crans, Switzerland: Rotovision, S.A., for the Society of Illustrators, 1997), color illustration, p. 54; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.936, p. 447
Curatorial RemarksThere is no confirmed citation for this image, however, Wyeth worked on several commissions in 1922 which included images of galleons: the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company calendar, and the Ladies' Home Journal story "Snake and Hawk."
According to Knoedler's records, this painting was received with the title "Spanish Galleon, Sailing Chesapeake Bay," with no indication of the source for this title from the first known owner, Mrs. Julean Harris. N. C. Wyeth's address book contains an entry for Jacqueline S. and Julian Harris of Detroit, MI and Annapolis, MD however, none of these names were familiar to Ann Wyeth McCoy as friends or business associates of her father. The present owner purchased the painting from a dealer in California who had titled it "Sailing Away."
According to Knoedler's records, this painting was received with the title "Spanish Galleon, Sailing Chesapeake Bay," with no indication of the source for this title from the first known owner, Mrs. Julean Harris. N. C. Wyeth's address book contains an entry for Jacqueline S. and Julian Harris of Detroit, MI and Annapolis, MD however, none of these names were familiar to Ann Wyeth McCoy as friends or business associates of her father. The present owner purchased the painting from a dealer in California who had titled it "Sailing Away."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Phillip M. Grace