Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Surf--Cannibal Shore, Maine
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1930 / 1934
Dimensions:
42 × 47 in. (106.7 × 119.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.535
Research Number: NCW: 535
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, by Andrew Wyeth)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, gift to her grandson, Howard Wyeth, 1962; Howard Wyeth, 1962-1990
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Sights of the Sea," Sept. 9 - Nov. 19, 1978; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 60 (catalogue only; withdrawn from exhibition)
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.163, p. 752, 753
Curatorial RemarksAccording to Andrew Wyeth, this painting hung for years at Eight Bells, the Wyeth home in Port Clyde. The scene is part of the coast the Wyeth family called "Cannibal Shore.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Dennis Griggs, 10/2000