Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Coast Guard to the Rescue
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
28 × 25 1/2 in. (71.1 × 64.8 cm)
Courtesy U. S. Naval Academy Museum
Accession number: SUPP2000.553
Research Number: NCW: 553
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 1128, 8.17.42; written on panel label: Cost Guard / to the / Rescue / # 12; written directly on panel: # 12
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1944; gift to the U. S. Naval Academy
References
Catalogue of Paintings (Annapolis, MD: United States Coast Guard Academy, 1961), no. 215, p. 13; United States Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1968, cover illustration in color; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 291; American History Illustrated, vol. XII, no. 3 (June 1977), cover illustration in color; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.163, p. 692
Curatorial RemarksExtant are a composition drawing for this image (NCW 2111); and a lantern slide (Brandywine River Museum, NCWS.95.1825.139) used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Greg Staley, 1/2006