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This dangerous wild thing was undecided whether to leap in or back out. Eye to eye boy and wolf stared at each other for one terrible moment.

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

This dangerous wild thing was undecided whether to leap in or back out. Eye to eye boy and wolf stared at each other for one terrible moment.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
22 × 44 in. (55.9 × 111.8 cm)
Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art
Accession number: SUPP2000.1309
Research Number: NCW: 1309
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth family through at least 1969; Collection of Dr. Noah Meadows
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers, illustration in color, unpaginated; Newport News, VA, 2000;
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 260; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.949, p. 452
Curatorial RemarksThe painting was photographed in 1969, one of approximately 3 dozen paintings from the artist's studio that had been stored unstretched (Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonné files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency
Photo Credit:Gregg L. Vicik, 8/2000