There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward. And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward. And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 1911

Dimensions:

45 1/2 × 37 1/2 in. (115.6 × 95.3 cm)

location unknown

Accession number: SUPP2000.1268

Research Number: NCW: 1268

InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reprodution)

ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (?); Collection of Ralph Heitel, Brooklyn, NY, by 1962

References Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 381; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.364, p. 236

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/16/2005

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There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward. And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star.

N.C. Wyeth

There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward. And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star.