Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Alleyne's ride with a message for the Prince He was dizzy, sick, faint, but he must not die, and he must not tarry, for his life meant many lives that day.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Diamond M Fine Art Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University
Accession number: SUPP2000.1347
Research Number: NCW: 1347
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH c(encirled)COSMOPOLITAN / BOOK COR.
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); (Judy Goffman Fine Art, Blue Bell, PA, 1983); Diamond M Foundation, TX to 1993
Exhibition HistoryLubbock, TX, 1999
References
"Greatest Painter of 'Costumed Romance' Once a Cowboy,..." (Boston, MA) Sunday Herald, Nov. 12, 1922, illustration in b/w p. 8 section E; The Dearborn (MI) Independent, Jan. 20, 1923, illustration in b/w, p. 7; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 204; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.926, p. 445
Curatorial Remarks"The reading of the Chronicles of Froissart (all of them) was a very bright spot in the preparation of The White Company" (NCW to Sidney M. Chase, Aug. 3, 1922, Wyeth Family Archives). The Brandywine River Museum holds two copies of The Chronicles illustrated by Alfred Knapp (NCWS.95. 3424 and .4319). All images for The White Company were copyrighted by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting