Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Just as the baby's feet cleared the ground Padfoot leaped into the air and buried his teeth into the feathers of his old enemy.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
45 × 24 in. (114.3 × 61 cm)
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Gift of Carolyn Wyeth
Accession number: SUPP2000.731
Research Number: NCW: 731
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1976
Exhibition HistoryBurlington, VT, Shelburne Museum, "Wyeth Vertigo," June 22-Oct. 31, 2013, illus. p. 31, see also p. 27;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 260; William T. Henning, Jr., A Catalogue of the American Collection, Hunter Museum of Art (Chattanooga, TN: Hunter Museum of Art, 1985), p. 287; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.950, p. 452
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was photographed in 1969, one of approximately 3 dozen paintings from the artist's studio that had been stored unstretched (Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonné files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting