Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Two Boys in a Punt
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
37 1/2 × 26 1/2 in. (95.3 × 67.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.43
Research Number: NCW: 43
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Nathaniel Wyeth (artist's brother), to 1954, and descended in family; (Heritage Book Store, Los Angeles, CA, to ca. 1969); (Ronald R. Randall, ca. 1970-71); Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William A. Morton, Jr., ca. 1971 - 2006; (Reno, NV, Coeur D'Alene Art Auction, July 22, 2006, lot no. 107)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 46, as "Two Boys in a Punt"; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Visions of Sugar Plums," Nov. 24 - Jan. 6, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1997, no numbers; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 269, illustration in color p. 71; Peggy Robbins, "The Magic of N. C. Wyeth," South Carolina Wildlife, (Jan.-Feb. 1979), illustration in color p. 24; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.590, p. 314
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/2002