Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The seal hunt
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
39 × 29 in. (99.1 × 73.7 cm)
The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Accession number: SUPP2000.227
Research Number: NCW: 227
InscribedLower left.: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / © C. S. S.
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1975; [Frank E. Fowler]; The Collection of S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., 1975; Judy Goffman Fine Arts, New York, NY, ca. 1986 - 1991
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Ashland, VA, Randolph-Macon College, "Howard Pyle and His Students: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration," 7 Oct. 7 - Dec. 9, 1995, no. 30, illus. b/w (unpaginated); Abingdon, VA, 1996; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 13; New York, NY, Dahesh Museum, "Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration," Feb. 14 - May 21, 2006, no. 88, illus. p. 75
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.716, p. 369
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley