Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Ann Stuyvesant
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1926
Dimensions:
42 × 30 in. (106.7 × 76.2 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.1167
Research Number: NCW: 1167
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH / 1926
ProvenanceHotel Roosevelt, New York, NY; (?); (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, NY, 1958); (?); (Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, 1992); Collection of Barbara and Edward Aster, OR; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 27, 1999, lot no. 181)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Kennedey Galleries, Inc., "American Artists Illustrated," Sept. 19 - Oct. 17, 1992, no. 49, illustration in b/w; Eugene, OR, The University of Oregon, "N. C. Wyeth, The Art of Illustration," Jan. 28 - Feb. 27, 1999, Paintings and Drawings checklist no.2, illustration in color in brochure; Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, "Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture," June 13, 2009 - Jan. 10, 2010, illus. 291
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), illustration in b/w p. 175; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.28, p. 611
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was done in conjunction with a second commission the artist received for decorations for the Hotel Roosevelt. On May 10, 1926, he wrote to his father from New York (on Hotel Roosevelt stationary), referring to some sketches he had with him and would show the architect shortly: "they are for a map... and four portraits (imaginary) of Peter Stuyvesant, his wife, Peter Minuet,...and a fourth, a lady yet undecided upon" (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, Wyeth Family Archives). Peter Stuyvesant married Judith Bayard, so the "undecided" lady eventually became Ann, Peter's sister.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Ashley Slade, 11/2002