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Roaring River, dust-jacket illustration

© Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Roaring River, dust-jacket illustration

Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
Date: ca. 1933
Dimensions:
33 1/8 × 25 1/8 in. (84.1 × 63.8 cm)

Brandywine River Museum of Art, Anonymous gift, 2015

Accession number: 2015.2
Copyright: © Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Research Number: NCW: 584
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); words "The Roaring River" visible in raking light in sky area
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); gift to Thomas and Lillie Hovington, to 1984; Beverly Hunt, St. Paul, MN, to 1999; (Kramer Gallery, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1999); Private collection, St. Peter, MN, to 2015;
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 226; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1192, p. 543; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth, American Regionalist" in Rural Modern, American Art Beyond the City (NY: Rizzoli, 2016), p. 168, illus. in color, p. 169;
Curatorial RemarksLillie Hovington worked for the N. C. Wyeth family, but it is not clear whether the painting was given to her by NCW or by another member of the family, perhaps even after 1945.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Kramer Gallery, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Rick Echelmeyer, digital photography from print, 8/16/2006