Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
John McVey
Alternate Title(s):Jack McVey
(not entered):Uncle John McVey
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1928
Dimensions:
43 1/4 × 62 7/8 in. (109.9 × 159.7 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1093
Research Number: NCW: 1093
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / '28
ProvenanceThe artist
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1930(1), no. 28, as "John McVey"; West Chester, PA, 1933, no. 71, as "John McVey"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1995, no. 7, b/w illustration p. 11; Doylestown, PA, James A. Michener Art Museum, 1/20/- 5/6/2018 (and Roswell, NM, Roswell Museum and Art Center, 6/15 - 9/16/2018), "Magical & Real, Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd," checklist, vol. 2, p. 98, as "Uncle John McVey";
References
"The Most Beautiful Creation Seen Last Week," Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 12, 1933, p. SO 10; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.160, p. 751-752; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth, American Regionalist" in Rural Modern, American Art Beyond the City (NY: Rizzoli, 2016), p. 159-160, illus. in color, p. 159;
Curatorial RemarksThe painting is dated by the inscription on the front and by a note on an archival photograph (Brandywine River Museum library); a second archival photograph carries the notation "Jack McVey N. C. Wyeth" in the artist's hand.
John H. McVey (1853-1939) and his wife Hannah lived in the house on Creek Road south of Chadds Ford at the beginning of the lane to the Wyeth property. (The house is now owned by the Brandywine Conservancy.) "The six-foot six-inch McVey farmed 31 acres, raised honeybees and hunted raccoons," according to a caption under a photograph of McVey published in Around Chadds Ford by Karen Smith Furst (Arcadia, 2005), p. 75.
John H. McVey (1853-1939) and his wife Hannah lived in the house on Creek Road south of Chadds Ford at the beginning of the lane to the Wyeth property. (The house is now owned by the Brandywine Conservancy.) "The six-foot six-inch McVey farmed 31 acres, raised honeybees and hunted raccoons," according to a caption under a photograph of McVey published in Around Chadds Ford by Karen Smith Furst (Arcadia, 2005), p. 75.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency
Photo Credit:?