Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Penny Teaches Jody His Sums
Alternate Title(s):Penny Teaches Jody
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 22 1/2 in. (76.2 × 57.2 cm)
William E. Miller, Casselberry, FL
Accession number: SUPP2000.841
Research Number: NCW: 841
InscribedLower left: (1 abraded and illegible line) / From N. C. WYETH 1942; adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel Label, no. 764, dated 3/24/39; written on reverse of panel: ILLUSTRATION For "THE YEARLING"/ BY THE AUTHOR MAJORIE RAWlINGS / PAINTED IN 1938 / N C W
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Mildred and Edwin Miller; Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Fetherolf, by 1968; descended in family
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 15 as "Penny Teaches Jody"
References
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, illustrated vol. I, p. 299 (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1966); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1280, p. 577
Curatorial RemarksHenry 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:Raymond Martinot, Martinot Photo, 1/16/2006