Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Still Life with Flowers, Green Glass Bottle, and Tea Cup
Alternate Title(s):Flowers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1926 / 1938
Dimensions:
32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1328
Research Number: NCW: 1328
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse in lower left quadrant, handwritten in pencil at 90° angle: of His Father / [?]8" wide / [?] prints / [illegible] / # [2?]04; proper upper right quadrant, handwritten in pencil at 90° angle: September - p. 19 / [blocked by crossbar] / 6" wide crop 3/8" / each side- / final width [blocked by crossbar]verall / Wyeth Red; stretcher bar, top center, handwritten in black ink: 54818 CA 7655
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 -through at least Feb. 1966, #7655 or 54818); Private collection, Winston-Salem, NC; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryPossibly, West Chester, PA, 1938(2), no. 53 as "Cosmos"; New York, NY, 1957, no. 11, as "Flowers"
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), S.21, p. 790
Curatorial RemarksThe printer's marks on the reverse of this canvas make it clear that NCW 1838 is underneath the present image, an illustration that appeared on page 19 for the September 1925 issue of McCall's serialization of Howard Bell Wright's "A Son of His Father."
The identification of this painting with number 53 in West Chester, PA, 1938(2) is based only on the flowers depicted.
The identification of this painting with number 53 in West Chester, PA, 1938(2) is based only on the flowers depicted.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1.) Transparency directly from painting; 2.) Digital photo of verso directly from painting
Photo Credit:1-2.) Lloyd Aaron Photography, 12/2005