Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The walk in the snow
Alternate Title(s):A Walk in the Snow
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
34 × 25 1/8 in. (86.4 × 63.8 cm)
Needham Free Public Library, Needham, Massachusetts
Accession number: SUPP2000.1041
Research Number: NCW: 1041
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1912 (date not in NCW's hand); also in upper left: TO NAT 1925
ProvenanceThe artist; Nathaniel C. Wyeth, 1925; Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel C. Wyeth to 1968
Exhibition HistoryNeedham, MA, 1982, no numbers
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 219; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.975, p. 468, 469; Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, edited by Barry Menikoff, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2016, plate no. 6
Curatorial RemarksThe artist's library includes Scribner's 1905 unillustrated edition of the story (NCWS.95.203) which Wyeth read and marked in preparation for the commission.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Stephen Morrison, 10/2004