Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Georges Islands, Penobscot Bay, Maine
Alternate Title(s):Maine Landscape; Little Caldwell Island
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1922 / 1930
Dimensions:
42 3/16 × 48 1/8 in. (107.2 × 122.2 cm)
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Anonymous gift, 1984.63
Accession number: SUPP2000.676
Research Number: NCW: 676
InscribedOn frame: The Huntington Hartford Collection H. 58.1
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1956; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, #54858, 1956- ca. 1958); Huntington Hartford, ca. 1958-1970; (Hirschl & Adler, 1970); (Coe Kerr Gallery, 1973); Private collection to 1984
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 34, as "Maine Landscape"; Elmira, NY, 1985, p. 28, illustration in b/w fig. 2 p. 12, as "Little Caldwell Island"; Marietta, GA, 1998, no numbers, illustration in color, unpaginated; Portland Museum of Art, 2000, illustration in color, fig. 12, p. 22
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 83; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.144, p. 746
Curatorial RemarksThe authority for the title rests with an archival photo which is stamped on the reverse: SANBORN STUDIO / WIL., DEL. and inscribed in the artist's hand: Gorges(sic) Islands / Penobscot Bay, Me. / N. C. W. (Brandywine River Museum collection).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy Portland Museum of Art; no photographer credited