Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Snow-Drop
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
30 × 20 9/16 in. (76.2 × 52.2 cm)
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Childrens Literature Research Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1005
Research Number: NCW: 1005
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH; painted on reverse of panel in NCW's hand: "SNOW DROP" / P.74; adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 885 dated 3/26/(19)40
ProvenanceThe artist; anonymous donor to present collection, 1941
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1941(2); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Snow White," Nov. 26, 1997 - Jan. 11, 1998
References
N.C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1940 (unpublished); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 208; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1286, p. 579
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an earlier, unillustrated edition of this book that the artist used to plan his pictures (NCWS.95.595). Wyeth's 1940 income tax notes itemize expenses for each commissioned painting done that year. In the case of Snow-Drop, among other deductions against the profit for this painting ("Materials, Costume, Model" etc.), Wyeth lists $8.00, for "a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo." The Brandywine River Museum library collection includes a lantern slide of the composition drawing (NCWS.95.1825.69).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Joseph Painter, 9/2003; Conservation work by Franklin Shores