Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Mrs. N. C. Wyeth in a Rocking Chair
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1909
Dimensions:
26 × 24 in. (66 × 61 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.415
Research Number: NCW: 415
InscribedUnsigned
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1973(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 26, cover illustration in color; Cedar Rapids, IA, 1990; Chadds Ford, PA, 1997, no numbers; Portland, ME, 2000, color illustration, fig. 9, p. 18
References
James H. Duff, "An American Vision", printed in An American Vision Three Generations of American Art (Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Co., 1987), b/w illustration, p. 22; Kate F. Jennings. N. C. Wyeth (New York, NY: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration, p. 10; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), color illustration after p. 180; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.10, p. 802
Curatorial RemarksAndrew Wyeth noted that the setting of this painting is the farm east of Chadds Ford which the Wyeths rented between April 1908 and March 1911; he believed that Carolyn Bockius Wyeth was pregnant with her daughter Carolyn at the time, which would make the date of the painting 1909.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency