Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Arion and the Dolphin
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1938
Dimensions:
31 7/8 × 22 1/16 in. (81 × 56 cm)
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Childrens Literature Research Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1007
Research Number: NCW: 1007
InscribedScratched into ground in lower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel: Renaissance Panel label # 634, dated 3/18/(19)38; painted on reverse of panel: ARION AND THE DOLPHIN / P. 278
ProvenanceThe artist; anonymous donor to present collection, 1941
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1941(2);
References
N.C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1940 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr.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.1248, p. 565
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an earlier, unillustrated edition of this book that the artist used to plan his pictures (NCWS.95.595); the composition drawing (NCW 2084); and a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.63) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Joseph Painter, 3/2004; Conservation work by Franklin Shores