Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Hungry, but Stern, on the Depot Platform
Alternate Title(s):The Imitation Bad Man
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
31 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (79.4 × 64.8 cm)
Collection of Linda L. Bean
Accession number: SUPP2000.247
Research Number: NCW: 247
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH
Provenance(?); Walker W. Wynkoop, Kenilworth, IL, ?-1948; Walker E. Wynkoop, Chicago, IL, 1948 - ca. 1972; (?); Mr. and Mrs. John H. Epstein, Grayslake, IL; Private collection to 1996; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1996); Collection of John Edward Dell; (Somerville Manning Gallery, 2001)
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1975; Cody, WY, 1980, ps. 13, 56, plate 23 on p. 42
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 272, illustration in b/w p. 43; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 76; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.106, p. 133
Curatorial RemarksBy 1970, the bottom 8 inches of this painting were recorded as missing. The section of original canvas that bore the signature and date (lower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / -05-) documented in the illustration was still attached to the reverse of the painting (Walker E. Wynkoop to Andrew Wyeth, April 20, 1970, BRM catalogue raisonne files).
Stanley Arthurs painted a similar composition that appeared in the January 1907 issie of Harper's.
Stanley Arthurs painted a similar composition that appeared in the January 1907 issie of Harper's.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Color photograph directly from painting