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Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Ski Jumper
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1910 / 1912
Dimensions:
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Painting destroyed by fire, early 1970s.
Accession number: SUPP2000.2235
Research Number: NCW: 2235
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY; Henry William Ralston, vice president of Street & Smith, and family, to early 1970s
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.324, p. 216
Curatorial RemarksNo published image of this painting has been found, and it is known only through a description written by a member of the family that owned it until the early 1970s when it was destroyed in a fire: "a young man with a long tassle-cap streaming out behind going off a hill-top. He was standing straight (underlined) up, arms down at his sides, and wearing old-fashioned wide skiis" (Helen Ralston Opitz to Jamie Wyeth, Mach 23, 1988, Brandywine River Museum catalogue raisonne files). The image must have been very similar to NCW 242, a cover illustration for Popular Magazine, a Street & Smith publication. The Wyeth Family Archives contains several photographs of Stimson Wyeth posing on skiis filed with letters dated mid- August, 1910.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:none available