Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He was searching the Old Testament for some strong and bitter text.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1267
Research Number: NCW: 1267
InscribedBottom center: N.C.W. (underlined) / 06
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; loaned to the American Whig Society, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 1908 - at least 1916; (?); Private collection, CA, by 1990
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 274; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.159, p. 156
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:web: BRM staff, 3/2006; hardcover, Rick Echelmeyer 3/2006