Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Put Down that Axe!"
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1951
Research Number: NCW: 1951
InscribedBelow image: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 08 (from reproduction)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901- 1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 257; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 273; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.252, p. 187
Curatorial Remarks"I am at work on the last Post drawings for the Convict story and will feel greatly relieved therefrom. I have done some very poor work for that story, and simply because I was not in sympathy with it" (Wyeth, ed., p. 257).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from print source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 5/2005