Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
This was the only bit of land above water anywhere about
Alternate Title(s):Pandora's Men on the Sandspit
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
29 1/2 × 20 in. (74.9 × 50.8 cm)
Private collection, Cambridge, MA
Accession number: SUPP2000.632
Research Number: NCW: 632
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH; reverse: Renaissance panel label no. 884, dated 3/26/40; on panel: CA4511/1-10
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1968, no. CA4511); Carolyn Wyeth; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1991); Private collection
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 72; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 17; Burlington, VT, Shelburne Museum, "Wyeth Vertigo," June 22-Oct. 31, 2013, illus. p. 24, see also p. 26;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 55, as "Pandora's Men on the Sandspit"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1296, p. 584
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of Pitcairn's Island (NCWS.95.604) that Wyeth read in preparation for the commission, which includes a typed copy of his initial illustrative program for the Bounty trilogy.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Thomas Lingner/The Able Lens, 8/21/2006