Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Self-Portrait of N. C. Wyeth
Alternate Title(s):National Academy of Design Diploma Portrait
Medium: Tempera on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
32 3/4 × 27 1/2 in. (83.2 × 69.9 cm)
National Academy Museum, New York (1463-P)
http://www.nationalacademy.org
Accession number: SUPP2000.132
Research Number: NCW: 132
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1940; on reverse of panel: SELF-PORTRAIT / OF / N. C .WYETH (underlined) / DONE IN OCTOBER 1940 / PAINTED IN TEMPERA / ON GESSO GROUND; adhered to reverse of panel, "Renaissance Panel" label of the F. Weber Company, dated 3/18/38, #644
ProvenanceGift to the National Academy of Design, 1940, by the artist
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1946, no. 5, as "Self Portrait, 1940"; New York, NY, 1946, no. 1, as "Self-Portrait, 1940"; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers, illustraion in b/w, as "Self-Portrait"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 125, as "National Academy of Design Diploma Portrait"; Marietta, GA, 1998, no numbers, illustration in color, unpaginated; New York, NY, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, "Men Without Women, Paul Cadmus as Curator," May 5 - August 29, 1999; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 60
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.56, p. 826
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide made from the charcoal composition drawing for this portrait, no doubt used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel (NCWS.95.1825.243, Brandywine River Museum Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:National Academy Museum, New York