Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Magician and the Maid of Beauty
High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it the Maid of Beauty
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
33 1/4 × 47 in. (84.5 × 119.4 cm)
The Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.48
Research Number: NCW: 48
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 9/50; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Visions of Sugar Plums," Nov. 23, 1984 - Jan. 6, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 21, illus. in color p. 108; Rockland, ME, 1998, no. 80 p. 165, illus. in color ps. 80-81; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, p. 51, ps. 72-73; Greenville, DE, Somerville Manning Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Painter and Illustrator," June 14-Sept. 14, 2019;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 68; Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 412; Richard Meryman, "The Wyeths' Kind of Christmas Magic," Life Magazine, (Dec. 17, 1971), p. 124; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 198; 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 ps. 80-81, see also p. 165; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.415, ps. 252-253
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Echelmeyer, 11/2002