Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Slowly and thoughtfully, absolutely without bravado, Drift shuffled the cards. "Keep ca'm Dawse," he advised. "Set down, why don't you?"
Alternate Title(s):A Little Game of Draw; A Little Game of Draw Poker
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
25 1/4 × 34 1/8 in. (64.1 × 86.7 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.479
Research Number: NCW: 479
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on extended tacking edge along top stretcher: Wyeth, N. C. / A LITTLE GAME OF DRAW POKER / NEG # A12694; on backing board, labels of Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Mongerson Wunderlich, Chicago, IL, and Frank E. Fowler; adhered with clear tape to backing board, yellowed typed label: "A LITTLE GAME OF DRAW / BY / N. C. WYETH
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY); (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 24, 1990, lot no. 120); (?); (Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL); (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN, 1991); Mrs. Andrew Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1990(2), cat. no. 51 on p. 86
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 230, 255; Alexander Nemerov, "N. C. Wyeth's Theater of Illustration," American Art Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2 (Spring 1992), detail illus. in color p. 36, illus. in color p. 44 fig. 12, see also ps. 37, 43 - 45; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.547, p. 299
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:No photographer credited