Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (two construction workers, one standing on a girder)
Date: ca. 1918
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2375
Research Number: NCW: 2375
References
$250,000 Advertising Campaign for Blue Buckle OverAlls, (Lynchburg, VA: Jobbers OverAll Company, 1919), illustrated (unpaginated); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 294; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.36, p. 649
Curatorial RemarksAndrew Wyeth identified this unsigned image as his father's work when he helped James P. Simpson with the first compilation of N. C. Wyeth's art in 1946-1947 (see James P. Simpson to H. E. Meyers of Curtis Publishing Co., June 9, 1947, James P. Simpson Collection, Brandywine River Museum library). N. C. Wyeth's commission for the Jobbers OverAll Company was done through N. W. Ayer & Son, a Philadelphia advertising agency (see the N. W. Ayer Advertising Agency Records, 1849-2001, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution). The Brandywine River Museum holds a pair of Blue Buckle OverAlls found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.4538).
According to an advertising caption, this image was featured "on thousands of billboards all over the nation" ($250,000 Advertising Campaign..., above).
According to an advertising caption, this image was featured "on thousands of billboards all over the nation" ($250,000 Advertising Campaign..., above).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:web: BRM staff, 1/23/2006; hardcover: Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2006