Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He Would Say, "Only Do I Care to Eat the Grub of the White Man."
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2031
Research Number: NCW: 2031
InscribedRight edge: N. C. W. 05 (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 282; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.119, p. 138
Curatorial RemarksIt would seem that this commission had been offered first to Frank Schoonover, for Wyeth wrote "I am now working on...an Esquimaux story Schoonover couldn't do" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "Enclosed you will find..." and dated in another hand Sept. 14. 1905, Wyeth Family Archives; additional letters dated Sept. 25 and Oct. 1, 1905). According to Schoonover's day book, he did a wax crayon and pencil drawing for the cover illustration between Aug.24-30, 1905 (Courtesy LeeAnn Dean, Research Director, Schoonover Catalogue Raisonne Project).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source
Photo Credit:University of California Library, Berkeley