I implore you not to move.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

I implore you not to move.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
24 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (61.3 × 41 cm)
Destroyed by fire, 2015
Accession number: SUPP2000.1416
Research Number: NCW: 1416
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); Adhered to canvas on reverse, Scribner's Magazine label, with all writing barely legible; affixed to top stretcher, label of J. G. Haderer Art Shop, Wilmington, Del.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, through at least 1967; Collection of Alfred Du Pont Dent; Estate of Alfred Du Pont Dent; (Somerville/Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1998);
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 276; Alexander Nemerov, "N. C. Wyeth's Theater of Illustration," American Art Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2 (Spring 1992), b/w illustration p. 51; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.595, p. 316
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was destroyed by fire in December 2015.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of owner