The Hag of the Rock An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.

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Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Hag of the Rock
An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 1912

Dimensions:

47 × 33 1/2 in. (119.4 × 85.1 cm)

The Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection

Accession number: SUPP2000.121

Research Number: NCW: 121

InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)

ProvenanceThe artist; (?); (Greenwood Bookshop, Wilmington, DE); (Richard Layton, Wilmington, DE)

Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 85; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 97; Rockland, ME, 1998, no. 59 p. 164, color illus. p. 59

References Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 412; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 198; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.416, p. 253

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting

Photo Credit:Echelmeyer, 11/2002

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The Hag of the Rock An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.

N.C. Wyeth

The Hag of the Rock An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.

The Hag of the Rock
An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.