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Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
titles unknown (pirates for Coca-Cola)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Date: 1933
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Accession number: SUPP2000.2481
Research Number: NCW: 2481
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.86, p. 666
Curatorial RemarksThis commission is vaguely documented in a letter NCW wrote, "The Treasure Island pirate job...meant eighteen drawings in two weeks!! The problem looked well nigh impossible but in these days of slim pickings it seemed ridiculous not to make a stab at it. To-day I finished the last drawing! and the whole set of eighteen turned out unusually well--bright in color, rather felicitous in composition, and dramatically fool-proof (NCW to Harl McDonald, "You-all must be wondering...," and dated in another hand July 31, 1933, WFA). Andrew Wyeth distinctly remembered that the set was commissioned for Coca-Cola, as a promotional tie-in to the 1934 film "Treasure Island" (Andrew Wyeth to Amy Morey, Oct. 6, 2006); the pirates were to be used as advertising cut-outs in drug stores and soda fountains. Andrew Wyeth recalled that his father had a special desk constructed in his Port Clyde studio for this work, and that NCW created the designs in watercolor on paper. Neither the original images nor reproductions have been located.
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