Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Night the Emily Dunstan Burned
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1920
Dimensions:
30 × 32 1/8 in. (76.2 × 81.6 cm)
The Quaker Oats Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.576
Research Number: NCW: 576
InscribedLower right within main image: N. C. WYETH (underlined); label adhered to reverse of support: Art Director's Club / Agency: J. Walter Thompson Co. / Artist: N. C. Wyeth / Advertiser: Aunt Jemima Mills / Return to: Aunt Jemima Mills; on reverse of frame, stamped in black: Box Number 1 Picture Number 3
ProvenanceAunt Jemima Mills Co., St. Louis, MO, c. 1920-1926
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1921, p. 45, plate no. 135
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 293; M. M. Manring, Slave in a Box, The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (University of Virginia Press, 1998), see ps. 112-127; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.45, p. 652
Curatorial RemarksThis was the second in a series of six advertisements by Wyeth published between Sept. 1920 and Feb. 1921. Accompanied by a lengthy text, each month's picture illustrated an event in the life of Aunt Jemima.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Bailey Art Conservation, Inc.