Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Michael Strogoff / A Courier of the Czar, endpaper illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Kremlin
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1927
Dimensions:
26 7/8 × 40 in. (68.3 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection, Chattanooga, TN
Accession number: SUPP2000.1485
Research Number: NCW: 1485
InscribedLower right: W (encirled)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth to 1981
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers, as "The Kremlin"
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Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 5; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers,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.1042, 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