Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sitter:
Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth
Portrait of Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth
Alternate Title(s):Portrait of My Mother
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
32 1/8 × 25 1/8 in. (81.6 × 63.8 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.49
Research Number: NCW: 962
InscribedUpper right in pencil: May 1923 (underlined) / N.C.W.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 4, as "Portrait of My Mother"
References
_____, "The N. C. Wyeth Studio," American Art Review, vol. X, no. 3 (June 1998), color illustration p. 171; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.25, p. 809; Jessica May, "Uneasy Modernities" in Jessica May and Christine B. Podmaniczky, "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives" (Brandywine River Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, 2019), p. 64, fig. 5
Curatorial RemarksThree months after she sat for this portrait, the artist's mother was diagnosed with inoperable carcinoma of the bladder (Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography, Knopf, 1999, p. 289).
When this painting was removed from the N. C. Wyeth studio in October, 1990, it was framed in a narrow, reeded frame with traces of gilding and black paint (NCWS.95.6738). Photographs in the Wyeth Family Archives show that this was the frame on the painting in 1945 and in 1965, and that it matched the frame on 96.1.24, a portrait of Andrew Newell Wyeth.
When this painting was removed from the N. C. Wyeth studio in October, 1990, it was framed in a narrow, reeded frame with traces of gilding and black paint (NCWS.95.6738). Photographs in the Wyeth Family Archives show that this was the frame on the painting in 1945 and in 1965, and that it matched the frame on 96.1.24, a portrait of Andrew Newell Wyeth.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:no credit on transparency