Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Stand away from that girl!" repeated de Spain harshly, backing the words with a step forward.
Alternate Title(s):Nan of the Mountain; Stand Away from That Girl
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
33 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (85.7 × 64.8 cm)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Accession number: SUPP2000.739
Research Number: NCW: 739
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist (returned to him from Scribner's, 1/10/1917, # B10405); Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, # 54836); Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware to 2017;
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 69, as "Stand Away from That Girl"; Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, "Four Decades: The Hotel du Pont Collection," Jan. 16 - Feb. 28, 1982, illus. in color, p. 57, as "Nan of the Mountain"
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 41; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Ilustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 218; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.570, p. 308; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 739
Curatorial RemarksThe Scribner's edition was published in April, 1916, the same month Everybody's Magazine concluded their four-month serialization of the story with illustrations by Charles Sarka (1879-1960).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 5/26/2006