Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mayflower Compact
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1938 / 1939
Dimensions:
26 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (67.3 × 62.2 cm)
Gift of John Morrell & Company. In the permanent collection,
University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Image © University Museums, Iowa State University, 2006
http://www.museums.iastate.edu
Accession number: SUPP2000.297
Research Number: NCW: 297
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH; adhered to reverse, Renaissance Panel label, no. 709, dated 8/11/38
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1940
Exhibition HistoryOttumwa, IA, 1940; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(2); Ames, IA, Brunnier Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth: America in the Making," Nov. 2, 2010-May 8, 2011;
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Margaret G. Mackey, Your Country's Story (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1953), illustration p. 54; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 156, p. 291; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration, p. 84; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.124, p. 678
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide of the composition drawing for this painting (NCWS.95.1825.165); and a proof (NCWS.95.6548) that from evidence of adhesive spots on the reverse probably was mounted like NCWS.95.6554 or NCWS.95.6562, bearing a stamp by Niagara Litho. Co.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting