Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
On the Island of Earraid
But the second day passed; and as long as the light lasted I kept a bright look-out for boats on the sound or men passing on the Ross
Alternate Title(s):On the Isle of Erraid (sic)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.170
Research Number: NCW: 170
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); lower left: © CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; S. W. Iredell, New York, NY, 1914-?; (?); Mr. and Mrs. William V. Sipple, Jr., by 1972, through at least 1981; Private collection, NJ, by 1985, and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 101; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 30, illustration in b/w, as "On the Island of Erraid"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 68; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 15; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1), illustration in b/w in exhibition folder; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 24 p. 201, illustration in color p. 27 and detail on cover, see also p. 30; Portland, ME, 2000, illustration in color, fig. 5 p. 13
References
Llewellyn M. Buell, "Eilean Earraid," Scribner's Magazine, vol. LXXI, no. 2 (Feb. 1922), illustration p. 189; Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 430-431; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Simon Winchester, "Merry of Soul: The Legacy of Robert Louis Stevenson," Smithsonian, vol. 26, no. 5 (Aug. 1995), illustration in color p. 59; Stephen T. Bruni, et al., Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition-Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998), illustration in color p. 68, also p. 165; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 223; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.471, p. 273, 274
Curatorial RemarksReferences to this painting mixed with reflections on coming of age are found in a letter the artist wrote to his brother Stimson in May, 1013 (see Betsy James Wyeth, ed., p. 431, and Michaelis, p. 224). Notes and insertions found in Wyeth's copy of "Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer" by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. & C. Black, 1912), suggest that the artist used this book (NCWS.95.608) as a visual resource for the Kidnapped paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Ralston, www.pralston.com