Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
A Young Maine Fisherman
Alternate Title(s):Charlie Stone; Off Monhegan
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1933
Dimensions:
52 3/8 × 48 1/8 in. (133 × 122.2 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.764
Research Number: NCW: 764
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, to 1971; Depositors Corporation, Augusta, ME, 1971; (Judy Goffman Fine Art, NY); Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen by 1983; (Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, DE, 1999); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, to 2005
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1935(2), as "Charlie Stone"; Portland, ME, 1938; Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 47, as "Charlie Stone"; Lewiston, ME, 1973; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Brandywine Heritage Gallery," Jan. 14 - March 11, 1984; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Lancaster, PA, Steinman College Center, Franklin and Marshall College, "A Collector's Choice: Selections from a Private Collection of Mixed Media," Oct. 3-4, 1985; Lititz, PA, 1995; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, frontispiece, p. 95; Portland, OR, Portland Museum of Art, "The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works form the Bank of America Collection," Oct. 7, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018;
References
"Wyeths Hold One-Family Exhibition," Philadelphia Record, March 31, 1935, 4: p. 6; Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 15; Marge Cook, "Artist N. C. Wyeth," Down East Magazine, vol. X, no. 7 (April 1964), color illustration between ps. 34-35; "Depositors Starts Art Collection with N. C. Wyeth Paintings," in News and Views from Depositors Trust Company (Augusta, ME, Oct. 1971), ps. 2-3, illus. p. 2; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1194, p. 544;
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was at least started during the artist's 1933 visit to Maine. In September he wrote, "...to-day I'm starting Charlie Stone (he posed all morning) which I will call 'Off Monhegan'" (NCW to Nathaniel and Caroline Wyeth, Sept. 13, 1933, Wyeth Family Archives). Stone was a Port Clyde lobsterman and a friend of Andrew Wyeth. A study drawing of the figure (NCW 2620) is privately owned and an archival photograph of the painting inscribed on the reverse in the artist's hand "Charlie Stone - Off Monhegan" was noted by the catalogue raisonne project.
The painting did not figure in either of the two preliminary lists of illustrations for Trending Into Maine that Wyeth made in March, 1936 and Oct., 1937 (Kenneth Roberts Papers, Dartmouth College Library), suggesting that he didn't decide to use the image as an illustration until later in the project. Wyeth shipped the picture to Little, Brown in late December,1937 (NCW to Roger L. Scaife, Dec. 20, 1937, Courtesy of Douglas Allen).
An archival photograph (BRM library) shows the painting in an Arts & Crafts style frame with vines and leaves, probably made by the Wilmington carver Frank Coll.
The painting did not figure in either of the two preliminary lists of illustrations for Trending Into Maine that Wyeth made in March, 1936 and Oct., 1937 (Kenneth Roberts Papers, Dartmouth College Library), suggesting that he didn't decide to use the image as an illustration until later in the project. Wyeth shipped the picture to Little, Brown in late December,1937 (NCW to Roger L. Scaife, Dec. 20, 1937, Courtesy of Douglas Allen).
An archival photograph (BRM library) shows the painting in an Arts & Crafts style frame with vines and leaves, probably made by the Wilmington carver Frank Coll.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photography files