Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Souvenir of Eight Bells
Alternate Title(s):Eight Bells
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1938
Dimensions:
32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection, CT
Accession number: SUPP2000.339
Research Number: NCW: 339
InscribedScratched into paint in lower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); to right of signature: TO NAT (name underlined) AND CAROLINE (name underlined) / 1940; on reverse of panel: SOUVINIER (sic) OF "EIGHT BELLS" / -1938; below in Nathaniel Wyeth's hand: PROPERTY OF MR. & MRS. NATHANIEL C. WYETH; label on top of frame: 75. EIGHT BELLS (N. C. WYETH Summer home at Port Clyde Maine) / Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel C. Wyeth
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Nathaniel and Caroline Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryPoss. Wilmington, DE, 1966, no. 21; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 75, as "Eight Bells"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1978; Woodberry Forest, VA, Walker Center Gallery, Woodberry Forest School, "Along the Brandywine, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," May 19-June 3, 1979, as "Port Clyde"
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.209, p. 770
Curatorial RemarksThe building on the left is the artist's studio in Port Clyde; the building on the right is the artist's home. The dock was constructed in 1937 (Carolyn Bockius Wyeth to NCW, June 6, 1937 and NCW to CBW, June 9, 1937, WFA. Built by Dell Simmons).
The painting's presence in the 1979 Virginia exhibition was verified by Nathaniel Wyeth's son, Andrew Newell Wyeth. (ANW to Christine Podmaniczky, 8/3/2015).
The painting's presence in the 1979 Virginia exhibition was verified by Nathaniel Wyeth's son, Andrew Newell Wyeth. (ANW to Christine Podmaniczky, 8/3/2015).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting