Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Pike County Ballads, untitled tailpiece (child with lambs)
Alternate Title(s):Child with Lambs; child with lambs
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
15 1/4 × 20 in. (38.7 × 50.8 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.7
Research Number: NCW: 902
InscribedAlong left edge of image: W; on reverse, small label (Knoedler's) on stretcher: No. 54862 / Picture
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - 1968, #54862); Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 82 as "Child with Lambs"; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 23; Chicago IL, 1997 no. 8 as "child with lambs"; Easton, MD, Academy of the Arts, "America's Storytellers: N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle", Dec. 2, 1999 - Jan. 22, 2000
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.389, p. 245
Curatorial RemarksNCW 457 is an identical design in pen and ink which may indicate an alternative plan to produce head- and tailpieces in pen and ink.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency from painting