Ten thousand dollars! Why, even one thousand dollars would keep him clothed, housed and fed for the few remaining years of his life and there would be enough left over to keep his old body out of Potter's Field. His hands trembled and the white fire of the diamonds flashed more temptingly.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Date: 1914

Dimensions:

dimensions unavailable

known by reproduction only

Accession number: SUPP2000.1593

Research Number: NCW: 1593

InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)

References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 252; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.540, p. 297

Curatorial RemarksWyeth illustrated two stories in the December 1914 issue of American Magazine. A letter, dated simply "Friday 4 PM" to HZW (WFA), noted: "...to cap it all, the American Magazine has turned down a Christmas story I did for it. I made unusual efforts to produce what they wanted by making a second series (which have just gone on the three o'clock train) but these latter pictures are no better, and I feel deparess as the deuce." Unfortunately, later correspondence does not make clear to which group he referred.

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, N. C. Wyeth archives, scrapbook D)

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 7/15/2005

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Ten thousand dollars! Why, even one thousand dollars would keep him clothed, housed and fed for the few remaining years of his life and there would be enough left over to keep his old body out of Potter's Field. His hands trembled and the white fire of the diamonds flashed more temptingly.

N.C. Wyeth

Ten thousand dollars! Why, even one thousand dollars would keep him clothed, housed and fed for the few remaining years of his life and there would be enough left over to keep his old body out of Potter's Field. His hands trembled and the white fire of the diamonds flashed more temptingly.