Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
River of Sleep
Medium: Oil on hardboard (probably Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1937 / 1938
Dimensions:
34 1/2 × 26 in. (87.6 × 66 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.593
Research Number: NCW: 593
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, evidence of previously existing large label (probably Renaissance Panel label)
ProvenanceGinn and Company, Boston, MA; by corporate merger to Pearson Education, Parsippany, NJ, to 2014; (Sothebys, New York, NY, May 21, 2014, lot no.80);
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1243, p. 563
Curatorial RemarksIn the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection is a composition drawing for this image that includes a reclining female figure on the river bank in the foreground (NCW 1440).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:© Russ Lappa