Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Anthony and Mr. Bonnyfeather Three mornings later Anthony emerged from his seclusion to take up his duties in the world of men.
Alternate Title(s):Anthony and Mr. Bunnyfeather
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1934
Dimensions:
40 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (102.2 × 79.4 cm)
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Catherine M. Kuch in memory of her son Reverend Bruce Southmayd Marks, 1987
Accession number: SUPP2000.537
Research Number: NCW: 537
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCollection of Henry Bankoff, New York, NY; (Phillips Son & Neale, Inc., New York, April 2, 1981, lot no. 78); (Judy Goffman Fine Art, 1987)
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Grand Central Art Galleries, "The Artist As Illustrator," April 13-23, 1976, no numbers, as "Anthony and Mr. Bunnyfeather"; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 79; St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, "American Illustrators: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries," July 1- Aug. 3, 1980, no. 17, illus. b/w in exh. brochure; Tallahassee, FL, Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery and Museum, "A Century of American Illustration 1880-1980," 9 Jan. 9 - Feb. 8, 1987, illus. in color p. 11; Louisville, KY, 1998, no. 7; Annville, PA, Lebanon Valley College, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, "N. C. Wyeth: Storyteller," Aug. 28 - Oct. 11, 2009
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 197; Michael G. Dubrow, Woodmere Art Museum The First Fifty Years (Philadelphia, PA: Woodmere Art Museum, 1990), b/w illustration fig. 17; American Art Review, vol. VI, no. 2 (April-May 1994), cover illustration in color; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1198, p. 545
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting