Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
All Around Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Lost Vein; Prospector with Dog, Carrying Dead Man
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
34 × 25 1/8 in. (86.4 × 63.8 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Cronley
Accession number: SUPP2000.466
Research Number: NCW: 466
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964); possibly private collection, Dallas, TX; (Christie's, New York, NY, lot no. 153, March 16, 1990); Harry A. and Connie Jo Lockwood Collection, Cincinnati, OH; Collection of John Edward Dell; (?); (Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2000); Mr. and Mrs. James D. Cronley; (with Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, DE, as of 2012)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 11 as "Prospector with Dog, Carrying Dead Man"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), number 44 on p. 83 as "The Lost Vein", b/w illustration p. 84
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 249; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 99; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.574, p. 309
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency
Photo Credit:unknown