Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
One long gaze filled Jim Crawford with sustaining strength. This was a possession of his soul.
Alternate Title(s):Prospectors; Gold Seekers
Medium: Oil on canvas, en grisaille
Date: 1929
Dimensions:
30 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (76.8 × 102.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1208
Research Number: NCW: 1208
InscribedBelow image at right: N.C. WYETH (underlined); inscribed on stretcher: Gold Seeker # 1 / Amber's Mirage on the (illegible) May, p. 5
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler); (Jim Fowler's Period Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1975); (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, April 20, 1979, lot no. 158, as "Gold Seekers"); Private collection; (?); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1999); Private collection, Wilmington, DE and Camden, ME, 1999; (Frank E. Fowler, 1999)
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 69; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1117, p. 521
Curatorial Remarks(See Chadds Ford, PA, 1967 exhibition file)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Frank E. Fowler