Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, frontispiece illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Woman Homesteader
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
35 × 26 1/2 in. (88.9 × 67.3 cm)
Private collection, GA
Accession number: SUPP2000.223
Research Number: NCW: 223
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1978; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN, 1978)
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 61; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 220; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.520, p. 292, 293; Jason Williams, "Competing Visions: The Alternate Wests of Elinor Pruitt Stewart and N. C. Wyeth," pub. in Western American Literature, vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 2010), p. 362-386;
Curatorial RemarksThis story was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct, 1913-Feb. 1914, April 1914) without illustrations, and published by Houghton Mifflin in book form in May, 1914. The commission is not mentioned in the artist's letters, nor are there relevant extant letters in the Houghton Mifflin Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Wyeth and his family stayed in Needham from mid-October through November, 1913; the paintings for the title may have been done then, which would account for the absence of references in his correspondence.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Michael Jensen, Atlanta, GA