Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Yearling, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
17 1/2 × 26 3/4 in. (44.5 × 67.9 cm)
Collection of Sam and Robbie Vickers
Accession number: SUPP2000.499
Research Number: NCW: 499
InscribedScratched into ground lower left: N. C. WYETH; adhered to reverse, Renaissance Panel label no. 702, dated 8/11/38; written across top of Renaissance Panel label in NCW's hand: Illustration for "THE YEARLING" / "JODY AND FLAG"; written along bottom of Renaissance Panel label in NCW's hand: OIL ON GESSO GROUND / PRESSED WOOD PANEL (underlined) / ENDPAPER FOR THE YEARLING (THE YEARLING is underlined) / by N. C. Wyeth; written on reverse of panel: CPO - 500 - 98950; written on reverse of panel along right edge: W300 - 081- 385 - 613
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Wyeth, 1944 - 1987, and descended in family, to 2001; (Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2001)
Exhibition HistoryFitchburg, MA, 1940; probably Clearwater, FL, 1941
References
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, illustrated vol. I, ps. 210-211 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1966); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1270, p. 573
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
NCW 399 is the composition drawing for this image; the Brandywine River Museum holds a mounted tear sheet or proof (NCWS.95.6600) that was found among the papers in the artist's studio.
NCW 399 is the composition drawing for this image; the Brandywine River Museum holds a mounted tear sheet or proof (NCWS.95.6600) that was found among the papers in the artist's studio.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Daryl Bunn Studios, Jacksonville, FL