Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Yearling, dust-jacket illustration
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
22 1/2 × 30 3/8 in. (57.2 × 77.2 cm)
Private collection, Wilmington, DE
Accession number: SUPP2000.813
Research Number: NCW: 813
InscribedBelow image at lower right: N. C. W.; adhered to reverse: Renaissance Panel label of F. Weber Company, no. 767, dated 3/24/(19)39
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Dugdale, Wilmington, DE, 1946 - ca. 1997
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Wilmington, DE, 1946, no. 49; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 12
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 215; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1269, p. 573
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide of the composition drawing for this painting (see NCWS.95.1825.99).
Henry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Henry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/13/2005