Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The discovery of the chest
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection, VA
Accession number: SUPP2000.163
Research Number: NCW: 163
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; (Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, MA, Dec. 1918); W. A. Hancock, Brookline, MA; (?); Mrs. Arthur L. Smythe, by 1965
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 87; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 40, b/w illustration; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 73; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222, color illustration p. 121; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.717, p. 369
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:(digitally altered) transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photo files