"Schmeckenbecker was more amusing than instructive"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

"Schmeckenbecker was more amusing than instructive"

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
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known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.2400
Research Number: NCW: 2400
InscribedLower left: encircled W (from reproduction)
Provenance(known by reproduction only)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 278; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.13, p. 105
Curatorial RemarksThis is probably one of the "character sketches" Wyeth told his mother in a letter dated Sept. 21, 1903, that he had yet to complete for Success.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from Success illustration, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 3/2003