Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sitter:
C. Douglass Buck
Portrait of C. Douglass Buck (unfinished)
Medium: Graphite on canvas
Date: 1937 / 1945
Dimensions:
54 × 38 3/8 in. (137.2 × 97.5 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.559
Research Number: NCW: 2366
Inscribednone
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.53, p. 823
Curatorial RemarksClayton Douglass Buck (1890-1965) was governor of Delaware from 1929-1937. Preparatory drawings for this portrait are held by the Hunter Museum of American Art (77.7.3, NCW 1501) and the Brandywine River Museum (96.1.517, NCW 2080); the BRM also holds two formal photo-portraits of Buck found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.1047.1 and .2) and a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.182) made from NCW 1501. There is no suggestion as to why the portrait was unfinished; an official state portrait of Buck was painted in 1966 by J. D. Reeder.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from canvas
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer