Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Grey Dawn
Alternate Title(s):Gray Morn; Gray Dawn
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1920
Dimensions:
30 1/16 × 30 1/8 in. (76.4 × 76.5 cm)
The Quaker Oats Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.575
Research Number: NCW: 575
InscribedOn reverse of support, label: Exhibition of 1921 / Agency: J. Walter Thompson Co. / Artist: N. C. Wyeth / Advertiser: Aunt Jemima Mills / Return to: Aunt Jemima Mills; on reverse of frame, stamped in black: Box Number 1 Picture Number 1
ProvenanceAunt Jemima Mills Co., St. Louis, MO, c. 1920-1926
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1921, p. 25, plate no. 78
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), ps. 228, 293, as "Gray Morn"; M. M. Manring, Slave in a Box, The Strange Case of Aunt Jemima (University of Virginia Press, 1998), ps. 117-118, illustration b/w p. 117; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.46, p. 652
Curatorial RemarksThis was the third in a series of six advertisements by Wyeth published between Sept. 1920 and Feb. 1921. Accompanied by a lengthy text, each month's picture illustrated an event in the life of Aunt Jemima.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Bailey Art Conservation, Inc.