Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Story of Rugs
Medium: Oil on hardboard (probably Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
28 × 26 1/2 in. (71.1 × 67.3 cm)
Private collection, Austin, TX
Accession number: SUPP2000.834
Research Number: NCW: 834
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA; gift to The University of South Dakota, 1941; (Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, TN); Robert and Carole Findlay, 1984
References
Milo Dailey, "Given to University by John Morrell & Co. Collection of N. C. Wyeth Paintings Hanging in USD School of Business" Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, Sept. 13, 1972, p. 19; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), ps. 156, 291; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.144, p. 685
Curatorial RemarksAmong the expenses for this painting that Wyeth listed in his 1940 income tax notes (library, Brandywine River Museum) were costume rental and a research trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Eric Beggs, 10/2004