Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
I ax yer parding, Mister Phinn-- / Jest drap that whisky-skin (sic)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
32 × 25 in. (81.3 × 63.5 cm)
The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
Accession number: SUPP2000.1733
Research Number: NCW: 1733
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Provenance(Gallery of the Masters, St. Louis, MO, 1995)
Exhibition HistoryWashington, D.C., Federal Reserve System, "Art of the Illustrator, Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration," June 2 - Nov. 28, 1997, no. 33 p. 21; Newport News, VA, 2000; Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Museum of Art, "Distant Lands: the Art of the Story / Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 1894-1938," Jan. 19 - May 6, 2001, no. 46, illus. in color p.46; New York, NY, Dahesh Museum, "Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration," Feb. 14 - May 21, 2006, no. 87, illus. p. 75
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.395, p. 246
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
In May 1970, Andrew Wyeth was contacted by Berry-Hill Galleries regarding a painting described as "Bar Room Fight" that carried a Howard Pyle signature applied over N. C. Wyeth's signature (AW to Howard Pyle Brokaw, Brokaw Collection, BRM library). By 2008, neither Andrew Wyeth nor Berry-Hill archives could identify which bar room fight scene was referenced.
In May 1970, Andrew Wyeth was contacted by Berry-Hill Galleries regarding a painting described as "Bar Room Fight" that carried a Howard Pyle signature applied over N. C. Wyeth's signature (AW to Howard Pyle Brokaw, Brokaw Collection, BRM library). By 2008, neither Andrew Wyeth nor Berry-Hill archives could identify which bar room fight scene was referenced.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley