Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Anthony Adverse, illustration for slipcase cover label
Alternate Title(s):The Lovers
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Date: 1934
Dimensions:
36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.539
Research Number: NCW: 539
InscribedSigned in the design (at three points above central cartouche) : N. C. W.
ProvenanceCollection of Henry Bankoff, New York, NY, by 1958 through at least 1974; (?); (Phillips Son & Neale, Inc., New York, NY, April 2, 1981, lot no. 79); Private collection, NY, 1981-5/2000; (Illustration House, New York, NY, May 6, 2000, lot no. 33); (?); (Mastro Auctions, on-line, Aug. 16, 2006, lot no. 221); (with American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, by 12/2010)
Exhibition HistoryProbably Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 63; prob. Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 78 (medium, support and dimensions are in error); New York, NY, Grand Central Art Galleries, "The Artist As Illustrator," April 13-23, 1976, no numbers, as "Anthony Adverse"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 197; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1195, p. 544, 545
Curatorial RemarksThe composition drawing for this painting is extant (NCW 744), and the Brandywine River Museum holds the lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.120) used in the transfer from paper to panel.
In a letter to Ann Wyeth McCoy dated Oct. 10, 1966 (Ann Wyeth McCoy Collection, Annenberg Research Center, Brandywine River Museum of Art), Andrew Wyeth recollected that he and his sister posed for this picture.
In a letter to Ann Wyeth McCoy dated Oct. 10, 1966 (Ann Wyeth McCoy Collection, Annenberg Research Center, Brandywine River Museum of Art), Andrew Wyeth recollected that he and his sister posed for this picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:No credit given on transparency supplied by owner, 12/1999