Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The busy world itself might well hush its noisy activities long enough to hear of it.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.657
Research Number: NCW: 657
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; loaned to W. R. Hill, YMCA, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, NJ, Oct. 1918
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 274; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.255, p. 188
Curatorial RemarksScribner's records indicate that this work was painted in color, and that it was loaned in 1918 to W. R. Hill of the YMCA at Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, NJ (Brandywine River Museum library, Scribner's Archives, # 25371).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from printed image (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Echelmeyer, 2002