Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Barefooted Brooks Clark Building Wall
Alternate Title(s):Building Wall
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1936
Dimensions:
34 1/2 × 28 in. (87.6 × 71.1 cm)
American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.916
Research Number: NCW: 916
InscribedScratched into ground at lower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, dated 5/18/1936, no. 439
ProvenanceThe artist to 1939; Paul Frederick Klaasesz, Lancaster, NY, 1939-1998
Exhibition HistoryUtica, NY, 1938, as "Building Wall", Concord, MA, Concord Museum, N. C. Wyeth's Men of Concord, April 15 - September 18, 2016, ps. 50, 51;
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum library); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 220; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1215, p. 552
Curatorial RemarksAccording to the artist's income tax notes for 1939, he sold this painting for $400, removing the approximately 2" wide white border that surrounded the image before shipping the picture to the purchaser. The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection includes a composition drawing (NCW 1442) for the image, and the Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.108) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy the Archive of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC