Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Murderer of Roy Campbell of Glenure
At that the murderer gave a little, quick look over his shoulder, and began to run
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
37 3/4 × 29 5/8 in. (95.9 × 75.2 cm)
The New York Public Library
Accession number: SUPP2000.169
Research Number: NCW: 169
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / © CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1913-1916
Exhibition HistoryPittsburgh, PA, 1919; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 32; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 69; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Rockland, ME, 1998, no. 67 p. 165, illus. in color p. 67
References
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers, illustrated vol. 7, p. 78 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1968); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.473, p. 274
Curatorial RemarksNotes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
The artist noted in a letter that he was present when "ten of my originals (were) installed permanently, in the children's reading room of the New York Public Library on Fifth Ave" (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, dated in another hand Feb. 26, 1916, Wyeth Family Archives).
The artist noted in a letter that he was present when "ten of my originals (were) installed permanently, in the children's reading room of the New York Public Library on Fifth Ave" (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, dated in another hand Feb. 26, 1916, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:(Brandywine River Museum photography files)