Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I'm going away," she said in tremulous defiance.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1917
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.534
Research Number: NCW: 534
InscribedLower right: TO MARY BALDWIN (name underlined) / with the compliments / of the / AUTHOR / N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Richard Lindley Baldwin and Mary Wallace Baldwin, Chadds Ford, PA, as wedding present; descended in Baldwin family to 2017; (with Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, Nov. 2017- )
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 277; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.703, p. 363
Curatorial RemarksThe box in the lower left corner of this painting represents a small artist's conceit--it is a travel trunk or freight box (possibly the box that arrived from Needham for birthday or Christmas) addressed to "N. C. Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pa."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2002