Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Orlando and the Giant Ferragus
Orlando's utmost skill only availed to keep him out of the giant's clutches, but all his efforts to wound him with a sword were useless
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Diamond M Fine Art Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University
Accession number: SUPP2000.322
Research Number: NCW: 322
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenancePrivate collection, Putnam, VT; Robert C. Vose, Jr.; (Vose Galleries, Boston, MA, 1958-1959); Edward Eberstadt & Sons, NY, 1959); Diamond M Foundation, TX, 1959-1993
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1925; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 38; 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
Simeon Strunsky, "About Books, More or Less: The Crowd and the Few," New York Times, Oct. 5, 1924, illus. p. BR4; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr.. N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 200; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.980, p. 471
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unillustrated earlier edition of this book that the artist read and annotated in preparation for the commission (NCWS.95.183). The copyright of the art work was originally held by the Cosmopolitan Book Corp.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting