Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Pledge at Spunky Point
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
24 × 26 in. (61 × 66 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.405
Research Number: NCW: 405
InscribedLettered above image: The / Pledge / at / Spunky Point; written at upper right: P. 39
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1960, # 54830); Private collection, Greenwich, CT, 1960
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 77
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.407, p. 250
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy Knoedler & Company, New York