Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Man Dressing as Santa Claus
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
36 × 25 in. (91.4 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1409
Research Number: NCW: 1409
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); label on reverse of (canvas or stretcher is unclear): "Man Dressing as Santa Claus / Artist - N C Wyeth 1882-1945 / 36 x 25 Cover, 'Popular Magazine" / Dec. 20 1915 - James Graham & Son
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (with Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964-1966); Private collection, CT, and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 15, as "Man Dressing as Santa Claus"; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum,
References
American Heritage vol. XVI., no. 1 (Dec. 1964), frontispiece illustration; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.591, p. 315
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2000