Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Story of Gold, study for
Medium: Graphite or charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1940
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1108
Research Number: NCW: 1108
InscribedLower right: W (circled) (from archival photograph, which shows drawing with a label in l.l. corner (not in NCW's hand): Pencil Study for an illustration / by N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Anthony Arabia, West Chester, PA
References
Ernest W. Watson, Forty Illustrators and How They Work (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., 1946), illustration p. 317
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.154) that was used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel (NCW 833).