Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece [monkey cooking at fireplace]
Alternate Title(s):Jup in the kitchen.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.3 x 15.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.253
Research Number: NCW: 253
InscribedLower right: PART II / END of CHAP. VIII; upper right: (circled) 25
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 "Jup in the kitchen."
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, 8/14/1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from drawing