Cranberry Island

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Cranberry Island

Alternate Title(s):Cranberry Isles; Maine Seascape
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1922 / 1930
Dimensions:
25 3/8 × 30 1/4 in. (64.5 × 76.8 cm)
Private collection, in memory of George Tyler Weymouth II (Feb. 1, 1969 - March 25, 1981)
Accession number: SUPP2000.609
Research Number: NCW: 609
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, by Andrew Wyeth);
Provenance[Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, by 1970]; Private collection, Greenville, SC, 1973; (?); [Sotheby's, New York, NY, Nov. 30, 1989, lot no. 290, as "Maine Seascape"; did not sell]
Exhibition HistoryWaterville, ME, Colby College Art Museum (also Brunswick, ME, and Orono, ME), "Landscape In Maine 1820-1970," April 4 - May 10, 1970, p. 86, illustration p. 87, as "Cranberry Isles"; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003
References Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.146, p. 746-747
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/1999