Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Marooned
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 30 1/4 in. (101.6 × 76.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1286
Research Number: NCW: 1286
InscribedLower left: © CSS N. C. WYETH (name underlined); adhered to upper stretcher member, a Scribner's label (cut in half; both halves applied): [typewritten] WYETH, N. C. / MAROONED / (illegible) / [printed] THIS COPYRIGHTED PICTURE IS THE / PROPERTY OF CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, AND IS TO BE / RETURNED TO THEM / IN GOOD CONDITION / from / SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE / 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York (these labels originally may have been applied directly to reverse of canvas, suggested by adhesive remnants in lower right and left); all four stretcher keys are marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1926; Mr. Frank Reeser, 1926-1956; Private collection, 1956 - 1998; (Frank E. Fowler, 1999)
Exhibition HistoryFt. Myers, FL, Edison Community College (long-term loan, 1973-1980); Lakeland, FL, Florida Southern College (long term loan, ca. 1980-1988); Lakeland, FL, Polk Museum of Art (long term loan, 1988-1994)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 244; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.714, p. 368, 369
Curatorial RemarksMost of the sky area in this picture had been overpainted; the overpaint was removed in 1998.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:web: Courtesy Joyce Hill Stoner; hardcover: Courtesy Frank E. Fowler