Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The last hope
Alternate Title(s):The Survivors; The Last of the Mysterious Island
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 31 in. (101.6 × 78.7 cm)
Collection of Joel and Suzanne Sugg
Accession number: SUPP2000.494
Research Number: NCW: 494
InscribedLower right: WYETH (underlined); lower left: © CSS
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to ca. 1935; Mr. and Mrs. David A. Randall, and descended in family to ca. 1970; (Ronald R. Randall, John Howell-Books, San Francisco, CA); Stephen and Diane Johnson, ca. 1970; (Randall House, Santa Barbara, CA, 1990)
Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn, NY, 1920, no. 27, as "The Survivors"; Philadelphia, PA, 1921, as "The Last of the Mysterious Island"; Boston, MA, 1921; San Angelo, TX, 1993; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 18; Lubbock, TX, 1999;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Ashley Slade, 11/2002