Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Portrait of Hope Elizabeth Robinson
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
34 × 30 in. (86.4 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2485
Research Number: NCW: 2485
Inscribedupper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / Nov. 1922
ProvenanceEdward K. and Hope Dunlap Robinson, and descended in family to 2014; (New York, NY, Bonham's, Nov. 19, 2014, lot no. 43);
Curatorial RemarksThe painting depicts Hope Elizabeth Robinson (1914-19?), the young daughter of Edward Kilburn Robinson, an editor at Ginn & Company, and Hope Dunlap Robinson, an illustrator of children's books in the early 1900s. The Robinsons lived in Belmont, Massachusetts, and were friends with the Wyeth family. Correspondence and photographs from N. C. Wyeth are held by the family of the sitter.
This portrait was painted in Needham, Massachusetts, during the period when the Wyeth family lived there (Sept. 1921 to the summer of 1923). Andrew Wyeth remembered that the doll pictured in his 1982 painting of Ann Wyeth McCoy had been given to her by Betty Robinson.
This portrait was painted in Needham, Massachusetts, during the period when the Wyeth family lived there (Sept. 1921 to the summer of 1923). Andrew Wyeth remembered that the doll pictured in his 1982 painting of Ann Wyeth McCoy had been given to her by Betty Robinson.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image directly from artwork