Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sally Merrillee and Johnny
"I'm glad you think I'm not scared," he said. "I haven't talked like this to anybody else"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
40 × 32 3/8 in. (101.6 × 82.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.219
Research Number: NCW: 219
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) 28; no marks on labels on reverse (canvas has been wax lined)
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); (Wilhelmina Hagner, Wilmington, DE); Private collection, Wilmington, DE, and descended in family; (?); (New York, NY, Sotheby's, May 19, 2011, lot no. 105, not sold); (Philadelphia, PA, Freeman's Auctions, Dec. 4, 2011, lot no. 111, as "Sally Merrilee (sic) and Johnny...")
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 11; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 199; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1065, p. 502
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission and marked with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting