Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Tam on the craig face
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.488
Research Number: NCW: 488
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Wilfred Van Nest Powelson, New York, NY; Roger Van Nest Powelson, NY and Philadelphia, PA; descended in family; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Nov. 30, 2000, lot no. 182); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, 2000 - 2005
Exhibition HistoryBurlington, VT, Shelburne Museum, "Wyeth Vertigo," June 22-Oct. 31, 2013, illus. p. 30, see also p. 27; Portland, OR, Portland Museum of Art, "The Wyeths: Three Generations, Works form the Bank of America Collection," Oct. 7, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018;
References
Anton Kamp, "N. C. Wyeth, Painter and Illustrator," The Artgum, vol. IV, no. 4 (April 1926), illus. b/w p. 19; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.973, p. 468, 469; Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, edited by Barry Menikoff, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2016, plate no. 5;
Curatorial RemarksThe artist's library includes Scribner's 1905 unillustrated edition of the story (NCWS.95.203) which Wyeth read and marked in preparation for the commission.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Sotheby's, 9/2000