Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Coming of the Mayflower in 1620
Alternate Title(s):Coming of the Mayflower
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1941
Dimensions:
104 1/2 × 158 3/4 in. (265.4 × 403.2 cm)
Collection of MetLife, New York
Accession number: SUPP2000.436
Research Number: NCW: 436
ProvenanceCommissioned from NCW by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1985, no. 13, "Coming of the Mayflower"
References
"The Days of the Pilgrims Live Again in Our Murals," The Home Office (publication of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.), vol. 23. no. 7 (Dec. 1941); N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1941 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum Library); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 169-172, illus. b/w p. 169; Robert San Souci, N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991), detail illus. on frontispiece; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.67, p. 629
Curatorial RemarksFor title authority, see NCW to Arthur O. Angilly, undated but ca. 1941 draft letter, collection Brandywiner River Museum library. The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection includes a composition drawing for the design (NCW 1790) and the related presentation painting is NCW 2369). The Brandywine River Museum holds extensive correspondence between the artist and the architect Arthur O. Angilly which touches on all phases of the commission.
In the mid-1980s, the MetLife murals were removed from the walls of their original location at One Madison Avenue, New York, and placed on strainers. By 2009, this mural had been removed to MetLife's new corporate headquarters on Bryant Park.
In the mid-1980s, the MetLife murals were removed from the walls of their original location at One Madison Avenue, New York, and placed on strainers. By 2009, this mural had been removed to MetLife's new corporate headquarters on Bryant Park.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Photo by: Malcolm Varon, NYC, copyright © 2007