Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
untitled (advertisement for Fisk Rubber Company)
Alternate Title(s):Your Satisfaction. First to Last; Rubber from the Jungle to the World; Natives Carrying Crude Rubber in Baskets Down Hill to Anchored Ship Below
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
31 1/4 × 67 1/4 in. (79.4 × 170.8 cm)
Thomas C. Quick
Accession number: SUPP2000.1503
Research Number: NCW: 1503
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH
Provenance(Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 29, 1986, lot no. 283, as "Natives Carrying Crude Rubber in Baskets Down Hill to Anchored Ships Below"); Private collection, Columbia, MO; (Brandywine Fantasy Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1991); Private collection; (Christie's, New York, NY, Dec. 5, 2002, lot no. 214, as "Rubber from the Jungle to the World")
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 294, as "Fisk Cord Tires. Your Satisfaction. First to Last"; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth, (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration, ps. 70-71 as "From the Forests of Ceylon"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.32, p. 647
Curatorial RemarksOnly the central portion of this painting was reproduced in 1918, roughly corresponding to the study (NCW 765). A photograph in the 1986 Sotheby's catalogue ("Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," May 29, 1986) shows more of the image on the right and left sides and gives the width dimension as 72 inches. A comparison of photographs and width measurements indicates that a strip of almost 5 inches was lost from the left edge between 1986 and 2002.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:web: Christie's, New York, NY; hardcover: Christie's, New York, NY (digital photography from print, Rick Echelmeyer, 10/23/2006)