Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Banty Tim
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
28 × 23 in. (71.1 × 58.4 cm)
Needham Free Public Library, Needham, Massachusetts
Accession number: SUPP2000.1042
Research Number: NCW: 1042
InscribedInitialed lower right: W
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); (Les Mansfield Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH, 1979); (Phillips, New York, NY, Oct. 20, 1981, lot no. 157; did not sell); (Illustration House, 1981-1986); (Guernsey's, New York, NY, March 15-16, 1986--did not sell); (Illustration House, New York, NY, 1986)
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, American Chamber Symphony, "An American Vision," Dec. 1-2, 1984, p. 14
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.390, p. 246
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Heins, Boston