Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Anthony Adverse, endpaper illustration for vol. I
Alternate Title(s):Anthony in a Tree; Boy in Tree; The Promise of Youth
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1934
Dimensions:
30 1/4 × 46 1/4 in. (76.8 × 117.5 cm)
Collection of Charles E. Woodsby, Orlando, Fla.
Accession number: SUPP2000.538
Research Number: NCW: 538
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); written on reverse, gift inscription and date
ProvenanceCollection of Henry Bankoff, New York, NY, by 1958; (Phillips Son & Neale, Inc., New York, NY, April 2, 1981, lot no. 80)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 80; New York, NY, Grand Central Art Galleries, "The Artist As Illustrator," April 13-23, 1976, no numbers, as "Boy in Tree"; St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, "American Illustrators: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries," July 1 - Aug. 3, 1980, no. 18 in exh. brochure; Winter Park, FL, George D. & Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Rollins College), "American Illustration, A Selection from the Charles E. Woodsby Collection," June 11-19 Sept. 19, 1982, no. 90, illus. (unpaginated), as "Anthony in a Tree"
References
"Children’s Artist, A Painter and Muralist of World Renown, N. C. Wyeth Likes Best To Paint for Youth, Hopes and Dreams," (Wilmington, DE) Delmarva Star, August 19, 1934, p. 12, as "The Promise of Youth"; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 197; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1197, p. 545
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Raymond Martinot, Martinot Photo, 2/2/2006