Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
We paused in the square of generous light.
Alternate Title(s):In the Dark of the Moon
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.641
Research Number: NCW: 641
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1906
ProvenanceThe Century Company, New York, NY; (?); (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1967); Collection of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., by 1974; (American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, ca. 1985)
Exhibition HistoryRome, Italy, 1911, no. 397, as "In the Dark of the Moon"; probably Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 36; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 55
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 254; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.129, p. 141
Curatorial RemarksAt this time Century was one of those periodicals that noted the process used to reproduce many of the pictures on its pages. This image was reproduced by half-tone, a photographic process, with additional engraving on the printing plate by H. Davidson. The hand engraving added a subtlety of tone that printers could not yet achieve with exclusive use of the half-tone process.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Dennis Griggs, 10/2000