Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/The Mother of John Paul Jones A woman's drawn, sad face appeared at the door; she picked up the package, weighed it in her hand, then despite her years, shouted with extraordinary vigor at the fleeing youngster/

The Mother of John Paul Jones A woman's drawn, sad face appeared at the door; she picked up the package, weighed it in her hand, then despite her years, shouted with extraordinary vigor at the fleeing youngster

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Mother of John Paul Jones
A woman's drawn, sad face appeared at the door; she picked up the package, weighed it in her hand, then despite her years, shouted with extraordinary vigor at the fleeing youngster

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Diamond M Fine Art Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University
Accession number: SUPP2000.989
Research Number: NCW: 989
InscribedLower right: N.C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1956; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, #54854, 1956 -1959); The Museum, Texas Technological College, 1959; Diamond M Foundation, TX, to 1993
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1946, no. 35; Washington, DC, 1946, no. 18; New York, NY, 1957, no. 59; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 8; Midland, TX, Museum of the Southwest, "The Wyeth Family," Jan. 8 - Feb. 6, 1973; Houston, TX, 1980; San Angelo, TX, 1993; Lubbock, TX, 1999
References Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 11; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 199; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1068, p. 503
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds Scribner's unillustrated 1925 edition of Drums which the artist read in preparation for this commission and marked with notes throughout and on the endsheets (NCWS.95.239).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Museum of Texas Tech University