Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
New Story Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Little Gal; Man and Girl Held at Point of Gun by Frontiersman
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
46 × 34 in. (116.8 × 86.4 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Anonymous gift, 1971
Accession number: 71.2
Research Number: NCW: 38
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, to 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964); Private collection, PA, 1964-1971
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 13, as "Man and Girl Held at Point of Gun by Frontiersman"; Brookings, SD, 1973, no. 11, as "Little Gal"
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 267; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 202; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.443, p. 261
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting