Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (surf crashing on rocks)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
sheet: 9 1/16 x 14 1/16 in. (23 x 35.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2348
Research Number: NCW: 2348
InscribedLower right, in ink: HEADING / canto VI
ProvenancePrivate collection, Wilmington, DE; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE, June 25, 1998); (Illustration House, New York); (Swann Auction Galleries, sale no. 2526, Dec.10, 2019, lot no. 127, as "Breakers"); Private collection
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:Digital scan from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum library
Photo Credit:BRM staff