Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Robin Hood and Little John
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939/1940
Dimensions:
30 1/2 × 20 3/4 in. (77.5 × 52.7 cm)
Courtesy of the University Museums, University of Delaware
Accession number: SUPP2000.1009
Research Number: NCW: 1009
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, Renaissance Panel label, number 839 (or final digit may be 7), dated 10/ (illegible, probably 10/27/39)
ProvenanceThe artist to 1944; donated by N. C. Wyeth to "Book and Authors War Bond Rally," Wilmington, DE, June, 14, 1944, and purchased by Continental American Life Insurance Co. as a gift to the University of Delaware
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1968, no. 3; Newark, DE, University of Delaware, "Inaugural Exhibition of the University Gallery," 1978
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1940 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Delaware War Finance Committee, "Book and Author War Bond Rallies, Wilmington, DE," brochure from June 14, 1944 sale (BRM library # 38075); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 208; "A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the University of Delaware" (Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 1985), b/w illus. p. 96; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1259, p. 568-569
Curatorial RemarksThe charcoal composition drawing (NCW 1535) for the image is held privately. The Brandywine River Museum holds an earlier, unillustrated edition of this book that the artist used to plan his pictures (NCWS.95.595), and a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.68) made from the composition drawing that was used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of University of Delaware