Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sitting in the bow of the boat, with his eyes fixed upon the woman who was nursing the Dane, was Stannard the Terrible!
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
Jill Schlimme Tallman
Accession number: SUPP2000.1425
Research Number: NCW: 1425
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); written on reverse of canvas in black: NO. 3 (circled); written on reverse of canvas in white: NO IX; written on stretcher member: #10 (in black marker), At the World's outpost (in blue pen)
ProvenanceMrs. N. C. Wyeth to at least 1950 (RL inventory); (at Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY); Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Schlimme, 1968-1978
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 67; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C .Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 255; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.551, p. 300
Curatorial RemarksFrom the artist's correspondence (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, "I'm directing this letter to you..." and dated in another hand "Nov. 18, 1914?" but autumn by context, Wyeth Family Archives), Wyeth was at work on the illustrations for this story in mid-November 1914. Filed immediately after the letter is a snapshot of this painting propped against an easel holding NCW 478 in the artist's main studio; both paintings are framed with dark moldings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Brenner, 4/21/2006