Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Spent his days browsing in libraries, where he read omnivorously.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Destroyed by fire July 1908
Accession number: SUPP2000.1978
Research Number: NCW: 1978
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth (underlined) / 08 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; destroyed by fire, July 29, 1908
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 274; Alexander Nemerov, "The Boy in the Bed: The Scene of Reading in N. C. Wyeth's Wreck of the "Covenant,"" The Art Bulletin, vol. LXXXVIII, no. 1 (March 2006), ps. 21-22; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.256, p. 188
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/2002