Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (figure in boat, waving hat and holding oar)
Alternate Title(s):First trial of the canoe.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
6 1/8 x 7 in. (15.5 x 17.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.252
Research Number: NCW: 252
InscribedLower right: PART II / END OF CHAP. II
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, 1997
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222 as "First trial of the canoe."
Curatorial RemarksThe artist completed all of the pen and ink drawings for The Mysterious Island during the first two weeks of August, 1918 (NCW to HZW, Aug. 14, 1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photography files