Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (two steel workers stoking a furnace)
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2373
Research Number: NCW: 2373
References
Blue Buckles: A Story (Lynchburg, VA: Jobbers OverAll Company, 1919?), color illustration facing title page; $250,000 Advertising Campaign for Blue Buckle OverAlls (Lynchburg, VA: Jobbers OverAll Company, 1919), inside cover; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 295 (date incorrect); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.33, p. 647
Curatorial RemarksWyeth's work for the Jobbers OverAll Company was done through N. W. Ayer & Son, a Philadelphia advertising agency (see N. W. Ayer Advertising Agency Records, 1849-2001, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution). The N. C. Wyeth studio collection includes a pair of Blue Buckle overalls (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4538). According to Jobbers OverAll promotional literature, this was the first published image in their 1918/1919 advertising campaign.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan of printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:web: BRM staff, 1/23/2006; hardcover, Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2006