Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled drawing (flowering branch and ribbon)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (30.1 x 25 cm)
The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Accession number: SUPP2000.2343
Research Number: NCW: 2343
InscribedNone
ProvenancePrivate collection, DE; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE, auction June 25, 1998); (Illustration House, New York, NY, 1998); (Swann Auction Galleries, Sale no. 2556, Jan. 28, 2021, lot no. 122, as "title and frontispiece");
Exhibition HistoryAshland, VA, Flippo Gallery, Randolph-Macon College,The Art of the Elegant Line: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Feb. 16- April 4, 2003, no. 32, illus. b/w p. 30
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 212; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "An Album of Drawings by N. C. Wyeth," The Hunt Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1996, ps. 18-19
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Greg Staley