Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Masquerader
The grim head fell on one side, and in its place appeared the honest, sturdy countenance of the scout
Alternate Title(s):Masquerade
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection, Cambridge, MA
Accession number: SUPP2000.31
Research Number: NCW: 31
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY through at least 1931; Clifton Waller Barrett, Charlottesville, VA, ?-1970 (and with Knoedler Galleries, 1968-1970); Private collection, DE, and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1971, no. 76, as "Masquerade"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 202; Stephen T. Bruni, et al., Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition--Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998), illus. in color p. 75, see also p. 165; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.759, p. 388
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and marked an edition published by A. L. Burt (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.4334).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:None given on transparency