Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
As I turned I saw her kneeling there, her hair all about her face, with her hands stretched out to me: and then I walked blindly away into the long grass of the marsh
Alternate Title(s):"I must think!" I said. "Let me be!"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
40 × 25 in. (101.6 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection, Cambridge, MA
Accession number: SUPP2000.1816
Research Number: NCW: 1816
InscribedLower right: To Burr A. Church from / WYETH (underlined) / 1922
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Burr A. Church, Newton Centre, MA, 1922; Private collection, Weston, MA, prior to 1966; (Vose Gallery, Boston, MA, 1966); (American Host Galleries, West Yarmouth, MA, 1966); Private collection, Cummaquid, MA, 1968 - 1998; (Vose Galleries, Boston, MA, 1998)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 262; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.888, p. 431
Curatorial RemarksBurr A. Church, a photographer in Newton Centre, MA, took the photographs of Wyeth's murals for the First National Bank of Boston which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of Sept. 2, 1924. His name occurs in the artist's address book, held by the Brandywine River Museum (NCWS.95.1174)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Vose Gallery, Boston, MA