Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The White Company, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
28 × 42 1/8 in. (71.1 × 107 cm)
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.260
Research Number: NCW: 260
InscribedLower left: W (encircled)
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Andrew Wyeth, 1928
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1946, no. 60; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 62; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 107; Chadds Ford, PA, 1973(2); Brookings, SD, 1973, no. 24; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1985, b/w illus. in exhibition brochure; Cedar Rapids, IA, 1990; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, "Enchanted Castles and Noble Knights," Nov. 28, 2014-Jan. 4, 2015
References
Horace W. Hardy, "Commercial Art as a Career," Red Barrel Magazine, vol. XIX, no. 12 (Dec. 15, 1939); Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 31; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 204; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.913, p. 440
Curatorial RemarksSee letter NCW to Sidney M. Chase, Aug. 3, 1922, "The reading of the Chronicles of Froissart (all of them) was a very bright spot in the preparation of The White Company" (letter, Wyeth Family Archives, and see two copies of The Chronicles illustrated by Alfred Knapp, NCWS.95. 3424 and .4319, Brandywine River Museum). All images for The White Company were copyrighted by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting