Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sir Nigel Sustains England's Honor in the Lists
Up and down went the long, shining blades with flash of sparks at every parry.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
40 × 30 1/4 in. (101.6 × 76.8 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.55
Research Number: NCW: 55
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (Knoedler & Galleries, New York, NY, through at least 2/1966, no. CA4508); Collection of Mrs. Richard Ellis, 1974; (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, Dec. 10, 1981, lot no. 213); (American Illustrators Gallery, Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY, 1991); Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen, 1991-2001; (Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, DE, 2001); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, 2001-2005
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 109, misidentified as "Alleyne Fights on the Banks of the Garonne" but error corrected in Coe Kerr papers; Greenville, S. C., 1974, no. 81, b/w illus. p. 13; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1), b/w illus. on exhibition folder; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Visions of Sugar Plums," Nov. 23, 1984- Jan. 6, 1985; Lancaster, PA, Steinman College Center, Franklin and Marshall College, "A Collector's Choice: Selections from a Private Collection of Mixed Media," Oct. 3-4, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Japan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, color illus. p. 33, no. 13 p. 125; Lititz, PA, 1995; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, p. 85; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, "Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights," Nov. 28, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015; Portland, OR, Portland Museum of Art, "The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works form the Bank of America Collection," Oct. 7, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 55; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 204, color illus. p. 113; Kate F. Jennings. N. C. Wyeth (New York, NY: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illus. p. 57; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.922, p. 443; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 31
Curatorial Remarks"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
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum file photo