Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Oh, Randolph," she cried, "I cannot have you play that game any more!"
Alternate Title(s):Encouragement; Football Practice
Medium: Oil on canvas on hardboard
Date: 1904
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 20 in. (69.9 × 50.8 cm)
Diamond M Fine Art Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University
Accession number: SUPP2000.540
Research Number: NCW: 540
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth . 04
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, NY; given by Scribner's to Mrs. A. N. Wyeth, Needham, MA; (?); (The Latendorf Bookshop, New York, NY, by 1961); Diamond M Foundation, TX, to 1993
Exhibition HistoryMidland, TX, Museum of the Southwest, "The Wyeth Family," 8 Jan.-6 Feb. 1973; Houston, TX, 1980; San Angelo, TX, 1993; Lubbock, TX, 1999, as "Encouragement"
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 84; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 214; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.25, p. 108
Curatorial RemarksThis was the second of the three illustrations for this story that Wyeth did; he called it "sentimental" and felt it was not as successful as the first one, which depicted a football game (Wyeth, ed., above).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork