Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
At the World's Fair in '93 Aunt Jemima was a Sensation
Alternate Title(s):Aunt Jemima at the Columbian Exposition in 1893; It seemed that everybody wanted to taste those golden-brown cakes
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1920
Dimensions:
30 × 28 in. (76.2 × 71.1 cm)
The Quaker Oats Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.578
Research Number: NCW: 578
InscribedLower right of main image: N. C. WYETH; on reverse of frame, stamped in black: Box Number 2 Picture Number 3; label adhered to reverse of stretcher: Art & Gift shop; also on reverse of stretcher: #4 (in pencil) / II (in chalk); on reverse of overlapping tacking edge, in blue ink stamp with pencil: WD 10/11/24 135
ProvenanceAunt Jemima Mills Co., St. Louis, MO, c. 1921-1926
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 293, b/w illustraion p. 144; Kate F. Jennings, N. C. Wyeth (New York: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illustration p. 72; M. M. Manring, Slave in a Box, The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (University of Virginia Press, 1998), cover color illustration, detail, and see ps. 125-126; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.49, p. 653
Curatorial RemarksThis was the sixth in a series of six advertisements by Wyeth published between Sept. 1920 and Feb. 1921. Accompanied by a lengthy text, each month's picture illustrated an event in the life of Aunt Jemima.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of Bailey Art Conservation, Inc.