Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Sunset
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1909
Dimensions:
38 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (97.2 × 64.1 cm)
Collection of Robert and Mary Lawler, Wayne, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.220
Research Number: NCW: 220
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceStreet & Smith Publishers, New York, NY; Private collection
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1975; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 57, plate 28; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illustration in b/w p. 88, cat. no. 38 p. 83; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Quentin Reynolds, The Fiction Factory (New York: Random House, 1955), illustration in color p. 100; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 269; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.271, p. 195
Curatorial RemarksThe following editorial comment accompanied the reproduction of this painting on the cover of Popular Magazine, November 15, 1909:
" It goes without saying that you noticed the cover of the present number, as it lay on the news stand before you bought it. We don't think that you could help noticing it. The painting itself is something to make one stop and stare in admiration, and the reproduction on the cover is about the best that can be made. Wyeth, one of the foremost of American painters of outdoors, painted the picture. We think we can say without vanity that it is probably the most artistic and striking cover on the news stands at present."
" It goes without saying that you noticed the cover of the present number, as it lay on the news stand before you bought it. We don't think that you could help noticing it. The painting itself is something to make one stop and stare in admiration, and the reproduction on the cover is about the best that can be made. Wyeth, one of the foremost of American painters of outdoors, painted the picture. We think we can say without vanity that it is probably the most artistic and striking cover on the news stands at present."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting