Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Leaping from Rock to Rock in sheer delight
Alternate Title(s):Boy on a Hill; The Boy was the Joy of the Journey; The Lost Boy
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
43 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (110.5 × 82.6 cm)
Private collection, Gates Mills, OH
Accession number: SUPP2000.734
Research Number: NCW: 734
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
Provenance(Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, as "Boy on a Hill," 1967-1969)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 237, 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.491, p. 283
Curatorial Remarks"Harper's were delighted with my interpretation of Christ...", NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, dated in another hand Oct. 3, 1913, WFA.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Howard Agriesti, Photographer