Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Morris House, Port Clyde, Maine
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1937
Dimensions:
34 × 52 in. (86.4 × 132.1 cm)
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum
Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Noyce, 1997
Accession number: SUPP2000.692
Research Number: NCW: 692
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, to ca. 1964; The Vanguard School, Paoli, PA (Christie's, New York, NY, May 22, 1991, lot no. 300; no sale); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1992); Collection of John Edward Dell; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1995); Mrs. Elizabeth Noyce, Bremen, ME, to 1996
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 2001; Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "The Wyeths, America's Artists," Jan. 15-April 17, 2011; Rockland, ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter," May 21-Dec. 31, 2016;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio,1950" unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 95, as "Morris House"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.202, p. 768; James D. Balestrieri, "Lesson in Form," American Fine Art Magazine, #28 (July/August 2016), illust. in color, p. 92;
Curatorial RemarksAndrew Wyeth recalled that the figures in this painting portray neighbors Jim Smalley and Harry Lowell. The scene is along Horse Point Road in Port Clyde, Maine, and as such should be considered a candidate for the painting in the 1938 Utica, NY, exhibition entitled "The Road to Horse Point" (see "Exhibit of Wyeth Paintings Opens At Institute Today," Utica Daily Press, March 12, 1938, p. 14). The present title is descriptive and has no archival authority.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:tansparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:photography courtesy of Christie's, New York