Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
John Paul Jones Hoists Our First Flag
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.549
Research Number: NCW: 549
InscribedScratched into ground in lower left: WYETH
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IW, to 1944; gift to the U. S. Naval Academy
Exhibition HistoryPossibly Chester, PA, MacMorland Center, Pennsylvania Military College (now Widener University), "Commencement Exhibition, Wyeth Family Painting," May 24-27, 1968
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: U. S. Naval Academy Museum, 1961), no. 220, p. 13; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 291; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.160, p. 691
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a composition drawing for this image (NCW 2065, 96.1.557); a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.141) used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel; and an archival photograph of this image annotated in the artist's hand: John Paul Jones raising / first naval flag on / ship Alfred, Phila. (circa 1774).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley, 1/27/2006