Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"There was only one to whom the rain had not brought blessing, and that was Plunkett"
Alternate Title(s):How Old Man Plunkett Went On
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1912
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.856
Research Number: NCW: 856
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); (Penny Hill Auction Co., Wilmington, DE, April 10, 1968, illustr. on cover of auction brochure, as "How Old Man Plunkett Went On"); Private collection, MD, to 1999; (Illustration House, New York, NY, 1999); private collection;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 254, 314; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.418, p. 253
Curatorial RemarksThere is no mention of this painting in Wyeth's correspondence, probably because it was painted sometime after mid-November, 1912, when Wyeth moved his family to Needham, MA, for four months. He painted that winter in what the family referred to as "the tank house studio," a building that had formerly housed a water tank for his grandfather's greenhouses.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital image directly from painting
Photo Credit:courtesy of Illustration House, 11/2003