Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (illustration for The Peach-Brandy Leg)
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1945
Dimensions:
19 5/8 × 14 1/2 in. (49.8 × 36.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1265
Research Number: NCW: 1265
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; probably Kirk Wilkinson, art editor, Woman's Day Magazine; (?); (Nicholas Wyeth, Inc., New York, NY, 1980); United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., Baltimore, MD, 1980 - 1993
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 279, illustration in b/w, p. 140; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1319, p. 592
Curatorial RemarksThis commission was placed with the artist in March, 1945, through American Artists Company, for $500. In the correspondence the story is referred to as "A Girl Wants Her Own" (American Artists Company to NCW, March 12, 1945, Wyeth Family Archives). Wyeth was told which incident to picture, and told that the Union soldiers were to be "battle worn and weary," but none suffering "serious wounds."
The Brandywine River Museum holds the composition drawing (NCW 2081, 96.1.550) for this painting.
The Brandywine River Museum holds the composition drawing (NCW 2081, 96.1.550) for this painting.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Nicholas Wyeth, Inc.