Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He turned and pinned the thing which men die for on the shabby coat of the guide.
Alternate Title(s):He pinned the thing men die for on the shabby coat of the guide.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
34 × 25 1/4 in. (86.4 × 64.1 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.705
Research Number: NCW: 705
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Harold L. Carpenter, Needham, MA; descended in family to 1994; (Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 1994); (?); (Illustration House, New York, NY and Alan Goffman, 1996)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 277; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.794, p. 397
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:web: Brandywine River Museum catalogue raisonne files; hardcover: Rick Echelmeyer