Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Song of the Eagle that Mates with the Storm!
Alternate Title(s):The Wild Woman's Lullaby
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Accession number: SUPP2000.326
Research Number: NCW: 326
InscribedLower right: TO CONSTANCE from WYETH -'17 / N. C. WYETH (underlined); Three labels along stretcher top, 1: Property of (torn) cribner's / Sons, and is to (torn) rned to them / in good condition / from / Scribner's Magazine / Fifth Ave. at 18th St. New York. 2: "Song of the Ea (torn) ates with the Storm" / Wild Woman's Lullaby - by C. L. Skinner / frontis-Scribner Magazine Dec. 1916. 3. HADERER CO. / ARTSHOP / Wilmington
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Constance Lindsay Skinner, 1917- 1939; Estate of Constance Skinner; (D. B. Browne, 1944); Collection of Thomas Gilcrease and Gilcrease Foundation, 1944 - 1955
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1917, no. 469, as "The Wild Woman's Lullaby"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), illus. in color on p. 47, cat. no. 46 p. 86; Rockland, ME, 1998, no. 82 p. 165, illus. in color p. 82
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 277, illus. p. 133; Stephen May, "N. C. Wyeth's Wild West," Southwest Art, vol. 20, no. 9 (February 1991), illus. in color p. 101; 656, p. 342
Curatorial RemarksCanadian-born Constance Lindsay Skinner (1877-1939) was a writer, critic and historian. According to a letter Wyeth wrote his mother in July, 1915, Skinner sent a number of poems directly to him. He considered her work "of profound dimension" and was responsible for calling "The Wild Woman's Lullaby" to editorial attention at Scribner's (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, dated in another hand July 2, 1915, Wyeth Family Archives).
The painting's place in the Philadelphia, PA, 1917 exhibition is verified by a reproduction in the exhibition catalogue.
The painting's place in the Philadelphia, PA, 1917 exhibition is verified by a reproduction in the exhibition catalogue.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Delaware Art Museum