Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Unwrit Dogma, untitled headpiece illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
20 × 36 in. (50.8 × 91.4 cm)
Private collection, ME
Accession number: SUPP2000.1657
Research Number: NCW: 1657
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Provenancepossibly Albert L. Pelton, Meriden, CT, and by 1966, Mrs. Myron D. Markley, Meriden, CT; (?); Private collection, Clearwater, FL, to 5/2000; (Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 2000, lot no. 199); Private collection, Boston, MA; (Vose Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004)
References
"Vose ArtNotes," vol. XII (Winter 2004), illus. in color, p. 20; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.694, p. 360, 361; Joe Lawlor, "The Mystery of the Stolen Wyeths," Portland Press Herald, July 15, 2015, illus. in color, p.1;
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was found in a house in Meriden, CT owned by the early 20th-century publisher Andrew L. Pelton. Among the objects in the artist's studio is a teapot (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1507) very similar to the one depicted.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from artwork
Photo Credit:Susan Bryne, 6/2000