Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Ivy shut her eyes when she hit now. Those gibbering monkey men did not know it, but Ivy in her terror knew it; no longer was it arms swinging a vindictive ax, but it was an ax of panic swinging helpless arms.
Alternate Title(s):Woman Chopping Down a Tree
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1930
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1432
Research Number: NCW: 1432
InscribedUpper right: W (with dots under the points and circled)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, no. 54825 and returned Nov. 26, 1968);
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 44, as "Woman Chopping Down a Tree"
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 45; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C .Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 263; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1169, p. 536-537
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1.) B/w archival photograph from painting; 2.) Digital scan from printed image
Photo Credit:1.) Brandywine River Museum curatorial filess; 2). September 1930 Ladies' Home Journal® Magazine. Used with permission of the publisher.