Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
What the Crusader Dreamed of Has Now Come True--The English Troops Descending the Mount of Olives
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1882
Research Number: NCW: 1882
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 573; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 271; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.734, p. 376
Curatorial Remarks"In the past eight days I have all but completed two pictures...for the Red Cross Magazine depicting the British occupation of Jerusalem, trying to bring out dramatically the sharp contrast of the new as against the old" (Wyeth, ed., p. 573).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/7/2006