Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):George Rogers Clark; Frontier Trapper
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
34 × 32 in. (86.4 × 81.3 cm)
American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
On loan to the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI
Accession number: SUPP2000.763
Research Number: NCW: 763
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceBookhouse for Children, Chicago, IL; United Educators, Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, to 1995; (Robert Henry Adams Fine Arts / Taylor Williams Antiques, Chicago, IL)
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "Illustrations from My Book House," 1930; Wilmington, DE, The Tatnall School, Winterthur Antiques Show, 11/95 (Taylor Williams Antiques); Louisville, KY, 1998, no. 1;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 212, illus. in color p. 134 as "Frontier Trapper"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.763, p. 390
Curatorial Remarks"Wednesday morning found me at work bright and early, and by night a canvas depicting Clarke (sic) the frontiersman well realized on canvas. To-day it stands almost done -- an effective, convincing picture (NCW to HZW "& All," Dec. 5. 1919, Wyeth Family Archives). The commission took the artist three days to complete. Similar guns, canteen and shirt are part of the artist's studio collection (Brandywine River Museum).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy the Archive of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC