Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Michael Strogoff / A Courier of the Czar, title page illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1927
Dimensions:
40 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (102.9 × 77.5 cm)
Private collection, Chattanooga, TN
Accession number: SUPP2000.1484
Research Number: NCW: 1484
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1979
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 5; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1043, p. 494
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the edition of Michael Strogoff that the artist read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.150).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Madden, 8/2004