Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Massasoit
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: 1944 / 1945
Dimensions:
31 1/2 x 46 5/8 in. (80 x 118.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1371
Research Number: NCW: 1371
InscribedSigned in image, lower right: N. C. W.; Lower left below image: MASSASOIT; lower right below image: Panel 311; (drawing is ruled and numbered for transfer, with "15 Slides" written at bottom center)
ProvenanceN. C. Wyeth; John and Ann Wyeth McCoy; Anna Brelsford McCoy; (Somerville Manning Gallery, 1995); Private collection, Chadds Ford, PA; (Christie's, New York, NY, May 24, 2007, lot no. 84); (Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, Inc., NY, NY)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, 1995
References
"Talking Antiques," The Magazine Antiques, Jan.-Feb. 2019, p. 40, illustrated (with Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts at The Winter Antique Show);
Curatorial RemarksN. C. Wyeth's major work for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was completed by 1941, however, in 1944 he agreed to do another group of murals and began to plan the designs. The drawing for "Massasoit," titled by the artist, was complete at the time of his death. The artist's son-in-law, John McCoy, transferred the design to canvas and painted the mural. Photographic negatives and lantern slides of the drawing, which is ruled and numbered for transfer, were found in McCoy's studio (see Ann Wyeth McCoy gift to Brandywine Museum Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 4/2005