Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Jody and Flag
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.811
Research Number: NCW: 811
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH (underlined); painted on reverse of the panel (underlined): JODY AND FLAG; adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label no. 762, dated 3/24/39; attached to reverse, newspaper clipping quoting Andrew Wyeth on his father: "...Robert Montgomery once visited my studio and told me father had most influenced his being an actor. He said that he used to imitate Blind Pew, the beggar in Treasure Island. Pew gropping blind in the moonlight was more than just a scene. It was a feeling."
ProvenanceThe artist to 1940; Private collection; descended in family
Exhibition HistoryFitchburg, MA, 1940; probably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Wilmington, DE, 1942(1), no. 35; Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 55; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 13
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1940 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum Library); "American Front," Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel, Feb. 6, 1940, p. 6; Woman's Day Magazine, (Feb. 1947), color cover illus.; "Stouthearted Heroes of a Beloved Painter," Life Magazine, vol. 43, no. 24 (Dec. 9, 1957), illus. in color p. 93; Reader's Digest Condensed Books, illustrated vol. I, p. 326 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1966); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), illus. in color p. 62; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1283, p. 578
Curatorial RemarksIncome from the sale of this painting ($450.00) is reported in the artist's income tax notes for 1940 (Brandywine River Museum library).
Henry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Henry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jack Abraham, 3/26/2006