Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Apotheosis of the Family, presentation painting
Medium: Oil on canvas adhered to hardboard
Date: 1931
Dimensions:
55 × 195 in. (139.7 × 495.3 cm)
Collection of The Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.1083
Research Number: NCW: 1083
InscribedBottom center: PRELIMINARY MURAL SKETCH / PRESENTED TO FREDERIC (sic) E. STONE (name underlined) / by N. C. WYETH (name underlined) 1932
ProvenanceThe artist: presented to Frederick E. Stone, President, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, 1932;
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 176-177
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.45, p. 620
Curatorial RemarksWyeth presented this painting to Frederick E. Stone, President of the Wilmington Savings Fund Society, in June, 1932 (Frederick E. Stone to NCW, June 17, 1932, Wyeth Family Archives). The Brandywine River Museum holds lantern slides made from this painting that Wyeth used in the transfer to the final canvas (NCWS.95.1825.41-.56).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Carson Zullinger, 4/2004