Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Rip Van Winkle, endpaper illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Gnomes Bowling
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
25 1/2 × 38 in. (64.8 × 96.5 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.631
Research Number: NCW: 631
InscribedLower right: W (circled)
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); Private collection, NY, NY, 1960-1991; (Christies, New York, NY, May 22, 1991, lot. no. 200, as "The Gnomes Bowling"); Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen, 1991-1999; (Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, DE); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, 1999 through 2005
Exhibition HistoryJapan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, illus. in color p. 37, no. 16, p. 125, no. 16 as "Gnomes Bowling"; Lititz, PA, 1995; Chicago, IL, 1997, no. 37; Wilmington, DE, 2007; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, p. 83; Portland, OR, Portland Museum of Art, "The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works form the Bank of America Collection," Oct. 7, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, and Cincinnati, OH, Taft Museum, Feb. 8-May 3, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 165
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 207; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.847, p. 416
Curatorial RemarksLetters from the artist to his family make it clear that he had completed the illustrations for Rip van Winkle by July 28, 1921.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Transparency supplied by Christie's, 1991