Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Step by step she forced herself to move across the floor till she stood above the bed.
Alternate Title(s):Was it indeed he? Or was it a dummy put there to deceive?
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1654
Research Number: NCW: 1654
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 258; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.434, p. 258
Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006