"See here Harjes, don't you ask me to do any of your dirty work--because I won't do it!"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

"See here Harjes, don't you ask me to do any of your dirty work--because I won't do it!"

Medium: Oil on canvas in black and white
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 30 in. (63.8 × 76.2 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.12
Research Number: NCW: 912
InscribedUpper 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References Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 69; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 282; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.516, p. 291
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/2000