Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I Thank Him for the Knowledge That - I Shall Not Tell! . . . And, Perhaps, . . . I Shall Not Wholly Die. . . . Perhaps"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
28 × 42 1/2 in. (71.1 × 108 cm)
Prvate collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1323
Research Number: NCW: 1323
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 10; on reverse of canvas: Line of Least Resistance
ProvenancePhiladelphia, PA, junk sale, ca. 1969; Private collection, PA; Frank E. Fowler, 2007, and with Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 2007; Private collection, RI; (New York, NY, Heritage Auctions, Oct. 26, 2013, lot no. 78171); Private collection; (New York, Bonhams, Nov. 22, 2016, lot no. 50)
Exhibition HistoryWellsboro, PA, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, Sept. 1999
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 273; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.315, p. 214
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Mark P. Bixsby, Wellsboro, PA