Gray Day--Maine Coast

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Gray Day--Maine Coast

Medium: Oil on canvas (commercially primed linen)
Date: 1936
Dimensions:
33 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (85.1 × 102.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1575
Research Number: NCW: 1575
InscribedLower left: TO LUCILE EVELINA DUPONT (name is underlined) / OCTOBER - 1938 / N. C. WYETH (underlined); ; on reverse of canvas in black paint: GRAY DAY - MAINE COAST -1936 / N. C. WYETH; on reverse of canvas, upside down orientation to design, in charcoal: N C W; on left corner of bottom tacking edge: CUT TO (underlined) 33" x 40"
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Lucile Evelina du Pont, 1938
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1968, no. 29; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003
References Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.196, p. 765
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 7/2003