Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Storm
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1695
Research Number: NCW: 1695
InscribedLower left: N C WYETH (underlined); painted on reverse of the panel: THE STORM (underlined); adhered to reverse of the panel, Renaissance Panel label dated 3/24/39, no. 761
ProvenanceMrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 1950 (RL inventory); Private collection, and descended in family of first owner
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 13; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, Condensed Books Volume 1 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1966), illustration, p. 289; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1279, p. 578, 579
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
The Wyeth Family Archives includes a photograph of this drawing on exhibition at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington in "The Artist's Gallery," sometime in the early 1950s. At the time, the painting was still framed in its original black molding.
The Wyeth Family Archives includes a photograph of this drawing on exhibition at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington in "The Artist's Gallery," sometime in the early 1950s. At the time, the painting was still framed in its original black molding.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 4/2006