Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Christmas Mail for the Ranch
Alternate Title(s):Coming Home for Christmas; The Late Mail
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1906
Dimensions:
38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Courtesy of James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.241
Research Number: NCW: 241
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 06; on reverse on stretcher: [Knoedler's label] No. 56312; all four stretcher keys marked: PATd. / FEB. 13 / 1883 / JUNE 16 / 1885 / A. D. S.
Provenance(?); Private collection, Chicago, IL, to 1957; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1957-1970); (Dean Krakel, Oklahoma City, OK, 1970); (Joseph Abbrescia, Skokie, IL, 1971); Mr. and Mrs. John H. Epstein, Grayslake, IL; (Mongerson Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1982); Private collection to 1992; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1993); Private collection; (Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, DE, 2000); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE; (?)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, SC, 1974, no. 94; Chadds Ford, PA, 1975; Cody, WY, 1980, p. 56, illus. b/w plate 26 on p. 45; Greenville, DE, 1995; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Letters, 1/9/06, 8/31/06; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 268; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.144, p. 148
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Schneck, 6/2002