Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Death of Old Slewfoot
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.1697
Research Number: NCW: 1697
InscribedLower left: N C WYETH (underlined); on reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label of F. Weber Company, no. 756, dated 3/24/39; written on label in blue crayon: 3
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 1950; Private collection; descended in family
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Washington, DC, 1946, no. 28
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 13; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown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.1282, p. 577
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.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/22/2006