Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Top is saved from the dugong
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection, Greenville, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.238
Research Number: NCW: 238
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH (underlined); written on bottom stretcher bar at right, upside down and in white chalk: SCRIBNER SON'S
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1975; [Frank E. Fowler]; The Collection of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr.; (Judy Goffman, American Paintings, Fort Washington, PA); (?)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 12
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 33; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.715, p. 369
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/13/2005