Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Deep Cove Lobsterman
Alternate Title(s):Deep Cove Fisherman; Deep Can Lobsterman; Deep Cove Lobster Man
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1937 / 1938
Dimensions:
16 1/4 × 22 3/4 in. (41.3 × 57.8 cm)
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Joseph E. Temple Fund
Accession number: SUPP2000.116
Research Number: NCW: 116
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, Renaissance Panel label partially torn off, with number and date missing
ProvenanceThe artist
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1939(2), no. 268, as "Deep Cove Lobster Man"; New York, NY, 1939, no. 9, as "Deep Cove Lobsterman"; Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 12, as "Deep Cove Fisherman"; Pottstown, PA, Hill School, "Centennial Exhibition," April 4 - 25, 1951; West Chester, PA, West Chester Art Association, Dec. 1, 1954 - Jan. 11, 1955; Jackson, MS, Mississippi Art Association, "Exhibit in Old Capitol Museum," Sept.13 - Nov. 30, 1970; Omaha, NB, Joslyn Art Museum, "The Thirties Decade," Oct.10 - Nov. 28, 1971, no. 210, illustration p. 52; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 134; Brookings, SD, 1973, no. 28; Greenville, SC, 1974, no.13; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 11, illustration in b/w p. 61; Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Sea and Shore," June 30 - Sept. 18, 1988; Philadelphia, PA, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Family Matters," Nov. 12, 1996 - Jan. 12, 1997; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 59; Burlington, VT, Shelburne Museum, "Wyeth Vertigo," June 22-Oct. 31, 2013;
References
Henry McBride, untitled exhibition review, The New York Sun, undated clipping between Dec. 5 and Dec. 30, 1939, illus. b/w as "Deep Can Lobsterman" (clipping, Brandywine River Museum library); "The Clan Wyeth Presents Its Famed Patriach," The Art Digest, vol. XIV, no. 6 (Dec. 15, 1939), illus. b/w p. 8; N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum Library); Theo B. White, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Fifty Years 1915-1965 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), b/w illus. (unpaginated plate section); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illus. p. 182; Christopher Hyde, "N. C. Wyeth's Maine Legacy," Down East The Magazine of Maine, (Nov. 1982), illus. ps. 28-29; Judith E. Stein, I Tell My Heart / The Art of Horace Pippin, (New York: Universe Publishing, 1993), illus. b/w p. 12; John Wilmerding, "Introduction," in Andrew Wyeth, Memory and Magic (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2005), p. 51; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.206, p. 768-769
Curatorial RemarksIn a review of the NY 1939 exhibition, (undated and unidentified clipping, BRM library, but probably from The New York Sun by Henry McBride), the author writes: The activities of lobstermen are good material for the artist...and Mr. Wyeth is at his best when reporting their actual adventures. The example lent by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is probably his best. In N. C. Wyeth's income tax notes for 1939, the purchase of this painting is noted on two different sheets; one dates the painting to 1937, the other to 1938. Both notations, in the artist's hand, give $500 as the purchase price. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts informed the artist of the purchase of this painting in a letter dated Feb. 16, 1939 (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, registration files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting