Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Stubborness
Medium: Oil on artists board
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Private collection, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.1055
Research Number: NCW: 1055
InscribedLower left: N. C. Wyeth / 03; printed label adhered to reverse of artist's board: F. W. DEVOE & CO., New York; printed label adhered to Devoe label: PLASTIC CLUB/ THUMB BOX EXHIBITION / Artist: (in ink) N. C. Wyeth / Address: (in ink) 907 Adams St. / Wil. Del. / Title: (in ink) Stubborness / Price: (in ink) $18.00; in script above lables: The first picture to be / exhibited by N. C. Wyeth
ProvenancePossibly collection of Mary Huse Eastman, librarian, Wilmington Library; C. Walter Mortenson, 1976
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, Sketch Club (Plastic Club ?), April 1903
References
C. Walter Mortenson, The Illustrations of Andrew Wyeth (West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1976), frontispiece in color; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.17, 107
Curatorial Remarks"I sent a picture up to the Phil. Art Club, but don't know whether it will be accepted or not. If not I will send it home. It's a small one entitled "Stubborness" representing a cowboy pulling a calf along with his "rope" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "At last I've got time..." and dated in another hand "April 28, 1903, Wyeth Family Archives). "I am going to the Art Club to get my sketch I sent them, which I'm sorry to say did not sell..." (NCW to HZW, "At the present time...," and dated in another hand May 8, 1903, WFA).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. digital photography directly from painting; 2. reverse of artists board
Photo Credit:Jeffrey Sturges, 9/18/2006