Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He had earned enough for a fifteen-cent lodging and a ten-cent meal and still had half his stock. He was grateful
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1595
Research Number: NCW: 1595
InscribedLower right: NCW (underlined, from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 252; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.542, 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:Transparency from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/2005