Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sun Glint
Alternate Title(s):Sunglint
Medium: Tempera on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
22 1/4 × 30 in. (56.5 × 76.2 cm)
New Britain Museum of American Art,
Harriet Russell Stanley Fund (1947.38)
Accession number: SUPP2000.891
Research Number: NCW: 891
InscribedScratched into ground at lower left: N. C. WYETH; adhered to reverse of panel, label of the F. Weber Company, Philadelphia, PA, no. 760, dated 3/24/1939; label adhered to reverse: PAINTINGS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS / WILLIAM MACBETH / INCORPORATED / 11 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK / SUN GLINT / BY / N. C. WYETH
Provenance(Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 1939); Private collection, 1939; (Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY, by 1945 - 1947)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1939, no. 4; New York, NY, 1945(3), no. 187; Waterville, ME, Colby College Art Museum, "Maine And Its Artists, 1710-1963," May 4 - Aug. 31, 1963, (also Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 12, 1963 - Jan. 26, 1964, and New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, Feb. 10 - March 22, 1964), no. 123; Rockland, ME, 1982, p. 4, illustration in color inside front cover; Portland, ME, 2000, illustration in color, fig. 27 p. 44; Hartford, CT, Old State House Museum, "Masterpieces of American Art," June 13 - August 11, 2001; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Yankee Magazine, vol. XI, no. 5 (May 1947), illus. b/w, p. 24; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), b/w illustration p. 182; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 355; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.216, p. 772, 773
Curatorial RemarksThis is probably one of the paintings which are referred to in a letter the artist wrote, "Three new Maine temperas you haven't seen deal with the lobstermen" (NCW to Peter Hurd, Nov. 30, 1939, WFA). The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.246) used in the transfer of the design from paper (NCW 1478) to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer