Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Boy's King Arthur, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
27 × 39 1/2 in. (68.6 × 100.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.276
Research Number: NCW: 276
InscribedLower left: W (circled) / © C. S. S.
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; Bertram G. Work, Oyster Bay, NY; (?); Private collection, Cypress Gardens, FL; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1968-1972); (James Fowler Period Gallery, Nashville, TN, 1972); Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Epstein
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 90; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 209; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.659, p. 343
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of the Boy's King Arthur that Wyeth read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.171, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Illustrations by Alfred Kappes) and marked with notes as he selected the incidents to picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photography files