Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Stop this one! Him--the sixth!
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
24 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (61.3 × 41 cm)
Destroyed by fire, 2015
Accession number: SUPP2000.1415
Research Number: NCW: 1415
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (faintly underlined); Scribner's Magazine label adhered to reverse of canvas, all writing barely legible; on right stretcher, remnants of label of J. G. Haderer Co. Art Shop, Wilmington, Del.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, to at least 1967; Collection of Alfred Du Pont Dent, and Estate of Alfred du Pont Dent; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1998)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 276; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.594, p. 316
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was destroyed by fire in December 2015.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of owner