Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Nearest to the rough pine box stood the widow, with lowered eyes"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1907
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1849
Research Number: NCW: 1849
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -07- (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 266; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.180, p. 163
Curatorial RemarksThe artist's correspondence makes it clear that he began work on these pictures in early January, 1907, but by the end of the month he wrote, "The pictures ... are a great disappointment to me, secondly the story is so confounded strong that it makes my efforts appear terribly weak (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "This Friday ends a week...," and dated in another hand Jan. 25, 1907, Wyeth Family Archives). He delivered them to McClure's on Feb. 1 (NCW to HZW, "I am now on the way to NY..." and dated in another hand Feb. 1, 1907, Wyeth Family Archives), and there is no subsequent explanation of why the story and pictures weren't published until May, 1908.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/16/2005