Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Robinson Crusoe, title page illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
36 × 30 1/4 in. (91.4 × 76.8 cm)
Daniel W. Dietrich, II
Accession number: SUPP2000.157
Research Number: NCW: 157
Inscribedwritten on reverse of canvas, 1 illegible line
ProvenanceWyeth family to 1967; (Chadds Ford Gallery, Chadds Ford, PA, 9/67)
Exhibition HistoryPossibly Boston, MA, Boston Public Library, April, 1923 (see letter NCW to Arthur Bailey, 3/1/23, but cannot be confirmed by BPL); Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 16 (confirmed by installation photographs in Wyeth Family archives); Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 110; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 203; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.811, p. 403
Curatorial RemarksA private collector holds a mock-up of the book, designed for salesmen to show prospective buyers prior to publication. Only the title page picture, the cover illustration, the endsheets, and frontispiece were included in the mock-up, along with a page of text and advertising material.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006