Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I'm Going to Give You About the Worst Licking You Ever Heard Tell Of"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
29 × 21 in. (73.7 × 53.3 cm)
Private collection, Highland, UT
Accession number: SUPP2000.1159
Research Number: NCW: 1159
InscribedLower left: N.C. WYETH (underlined) / 08
Provenance(Illustration House, New York, NY, June 1, 1991, lot no. 172, but not sold at auction; sold at later date through private sale)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 272; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.239, p. 184
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. photography directly from artwork; 2. digital image from print source (Brandywine RIver Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:1. Courtesy of the owner, 2004; 2. Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2004