Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Midnight Encounter Despiteful and terrible were the blows they gave and took by the moonlight. Agrican fought in a rage, Orlando was cooler
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
33 1/2 × 24 3/4 in. (85.1 × 62.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.262
Research Number: NCW: 262
InscribedLower right: TO GERTRUDE GRAHAM / N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Private collection, Gladwyne, PA, 1926-1994; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 200, b/w illustration p. 114; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.981, p. 472
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unillustrated earlier edition of this book that the artist read and annotated in preparation for the commission (NCWS.95.183).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2002