Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
New Story Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Return of Tarzan; Man in Jungle with Bow and Arrow
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
36 × 26 in. (91.4 × 66 cm)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Accession number: SUPP2000.1403
Research Number: NCW: 1403
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (with Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 6 as "Man in Jungle with Bow and Arrow"; Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains, and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection," May 16-Aug. 31, 2003
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 267; Henry C. Pitz, "N. C. Wyeth," American Heritage, vol. XVI, no. 6 (Oct. 1965), illustration p. 42; The Edgar Rice Burroughs Library of Illustration (West Plains, MO: Russ Cochran, Publisher, 1976), illustration in color, p. 23, vol. 1; Danton Burroughs, "Important Pulp Paintings in the Burroughs Collection," published in Robert Lesser, et al., Pulp Art, Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines (New York: Sterling Publishing, 1997), ps. 78-79, illust. in color, p. 92; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.494, p. 284, 285
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Brenner, 10/2006