Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Saturday Evening Post, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Chinese Pirate
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
24 × 14 in. (61 × 35.6 cm)
Private collection, Radnor, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.1891
Research Number: NCW: 1891
InscribedConservation report (Feb. 1965, Theodore Siegl, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) indicates that there were three lines of pencilled inscriptions on reverse of canvas which are no longer visible
Provenance[?]; Private collection, Deerfield, MA; David M. Gwinn, Gladwyne, PA
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 271; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.77, p. 125
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. Transparency directly from painting; 2. Detail from Saturday Evening Post cover, May 20, 1905 (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2002