Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
High Tide
Alternate Title(s):Lone Sea Gull; (possibly) The Sea Gull
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1933
Dimensions:
37 3/4 × 53 1/4 in. (95.9 × 135.3 cm)
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Gift of Carolyn Wyeth
Accession number: SUPP2000.895
Research Number: NCW: 895
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1980
Exhibition Historyprobably Wilmington, DE, 1935, no. 27, as Lonely Gull
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, ps. 87, 101; William T. Henning, Jr., A Catalogue of the American Collection, Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN: Hunter Museum of Art, 1985), p. 287; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.177, p. 757
Curatorial RemarksThe authority for the title of this painting rests with an archival photograph stamped: SANBORN STUDIO / WIL., DEL. that carries an inscription on the reverse in the artist's hand: High Tide / N. C. W. In November 1935, Wyeth exhibited "The Sea Gull" at the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, but no documentation identifies the work as this painting or NCW 894; a review of the exhibition ("Exhibit by Delaware Artists Draws Throng," Wilmington Morning News, Nov. 5, 1935, p. 15) referred to the painting as "Lonely Gull."
According to notes by the artist, this painting is one of three pictures of gulls sent to Macbeth Gallery (New York, NY, 1939) but not exhibited (Macbeth Gallery brochure, Brandywine River Museum Library). The artist records the date of the painting, as "Lone Sea Gull," in his 1939 income tax notes (Brandywine River Museum Library).
According to notes by the artist, this painting is one of three pictures of gulls sent to Macbeth Gallery (New York, NY, 1939) but not exhibited (Macbeth Gallery brochure, Brandywine River Museum Library). The artist records the date of the painting, as "Lone Sea Gull," in his 1939 income tax notes (Brandywine River Museum Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the Hunter Museum of American Art