Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Lunch for Daddy"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1938
Dimensions:
45 1/2 × 33 3/4 in. (115.6 × 85.7 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.41
Research Number: NCW: 958
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 38; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1255, p. 567
Curatorial RemarksThe picture is titled below the image on the magazine cover.
The painting has been waxed-lined and applied to a new stretcher. Horizontal members of the previous stretcher were stamped: BAY STATE STRETCHER / --MADE BY-- / WADSWORTH HOWLAND & CO. / BOSTON - MASS. (with Puritan logo); vertical members of the previous stretcher were stamped: ANCO.
The painting has been waxed-lined and applied to a new stretcher. Horizontal members of the previous stretcher were stamped: BAY STATE STRETCHER / --MADE BY-- / WADSWORTH HOWLAND & CO. / BOSTON - MASS. (with Puritan logo); vertical members of the previous stretcher were stamped: ANCO.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/2002