Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Breeze O'Wind, Port Clyde, Maine
Alternate Title(s):Breeze O' Wind, Port Clyde, Maine
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1922 / 1924
Dimensions:
25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1727
Research Number: NCW: 1727
InscribedLower left.: N. C. WYETH; Cardboard tag nailed to upper left corner of stretcher in longhand: Breeze O'Wind / Port Clyde, Maine / N. C. Wyeth
ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Wyeth McCoy to 2005
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 2001
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.143, p. 746
Curatorial RemarksAnn Wyeth McCoy recalled that her father "was waxing poetic" when he titled this painting (note to C. B. Podmaniczky, Nov. 12, 2001, Brandywine River Museum files).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Stephen Morrison, 8/2000