Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
King Edward
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
40 × 32 3/8 in. (101.6 × 82.2 cm)
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Burrage, Jr., 1991
Accession number: SUPP2000.178
Research Number: NCW: 178
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH / © C. S. Sons; with A. D. S. patented stretchers; on reverse of canvas in chalk: Property of / Chas. D. Burrage / Charlesgate Hotel / Boston; affixed to top stretcher bar, Scribner's Magazine copyright label with ink inscriptions as: Wyeth, N. C. / King Edward / Scottish Chiefs
ProvenanceThe artist (returned to him from Scribner's, 10/1/1921); Charles Dana Burrage, Needham, MA; Robert H. Burrage; Robert H. Burrage, Jr., to 1990
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 104; Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "The Wyeths, America's Artists," Jan. 15-April 17, 2011; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, "Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights," Nov. 28, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 215; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.866, p. 424, 425
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, Wyeth read an undated edition of The Scottish Chiefs published by Thomas D. Crowell Company, New York, illustrated with photographs of Scottish scenery (Brandywine River Museum NCWS.95.184). He also had in his studio library the 8 volume "Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments" pulished by Fullerton & Co. of Edinburgh (BRMA, NCWS.95.232.1-.8).
According to notes on the Scribner's file card for this painting, it was returned to the artist on Nov. 1, 1921, for an exhibition, possibly Boston, MA, 1921 (Scribner's Archive, Brandywine River Museum).
Wyeth was extremely concerned about the quality of the reproductions for this commission--he had generously used blue and green pigments throughout, difficult for printers to duplicate. For this commission, the plates were engraved by the Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping Company (see Scribner's cards, Brandywine River Museum of Art) and printed by Bowker (NCW to Joseph Hawley Chapin, dated "Tuesday morning, 6:15" probably June, 1921, Archives of Charles Scribner's, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library).
According to notes on the Scribner's file card for this painting, it was returned to the artist on Nov. 1, 1921, for an exhibition, possibly Boston, MA, 1921 (Scribner's Archive, Brandywine River Museum).
Wyeth was extremely concerned about the quality of the reproductions for this commission--he had generously used blue and green pigments throughout, difficult for printers to duplicate. For this commission, the plates were engraved by the Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping Company (see Scribner's cards, Brandywine River Museum of Art) and printed by Bowker (NCW to Joseph Hawley Chapin, dated "Tuesday morning, 6:15" probably June, 1921, Archives of Charles Scribner's, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting