Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Portrait of a cobbler
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1901-1902
Dimensions:
22 x 16 (sight size)
Private collection, VT
Accession number: SUPP2000.2672
Research Number: NCW: 2672
Inscribedl.r.: N C W
ProvenanceWyeth Family to Aldrich Family, Cambridge, MA, ca. 1903; Bertha Aldrich Dane to 1958 (death); her (adopted) daughter, Harriet Foster Welch, to 1997 (death); Velma M. Adams to 2019 (death)
Curatorial RemarksThe Wyeth family knew the Aldrich family of Cambridge, as shown in a letter NCW wrote to his mother on Jan. 16, 1903. According to the Cambridge City Directory (1902-1903), Bertha Alice Aldrich and Gertrude H. Aldrich (mentioned in NCW's letter) were sisters living at the same address. Bertha was a music teacher.