Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I am Sir Launcelot du Lake, King Ban's son of Benwick, and knight of the Round Table"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
39 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (99.7 × 79.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1118
Research Number: NCW: 1118
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined); lower left: © C. S. S.; on backing board, label of Victor Lallier / Artist : Conservator : Photographer / 6918 Aboreal Drive, Dallas, TX 75231
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (Stewart Kidd, Co., Cinncinati, OH); (?); Private collection, Miami Beach, FL, ca. 1958; (?); (Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY, 1992); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1992); Collection of John Edward Dell, ca. 1995; The Sordoni Collection; [Dallas, TX, Heritage Auctions, May 3, 2019, no. 68091];
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, 1995; Rochester, NY, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, University of Rochester, "Visions of Courageous Achievement: Arthurian Illustration in America," Oct. 2 - Dec. 19, 2014, p. 9, illus.; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, "Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights," Nov. 28, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 209; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), p. 29, detail in color on cover and color illustration p. 28; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.663, p. 345; Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler, Howard Pyle, His Students & The Golden Age of American Illustration (Newport, RI: The American Civilization Foundation, 2017), illus. p. 207; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 30
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of the Boy's King Arthur that Wyeth read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.171, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Illustrations by Alfred Kappes) and marked with notes as he selected the incidents to picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/2000