Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/"Ahi! If he hurts so much as the little finger of my captain," Memgumban screamed, "I shall tie you to an ant hill." And he leaped at the Chinaman with his kris/

"Ahi! If he hurts so much as the little finger of my captain," Memgumban screamed, "I shall tie you to an ant hill." And he leaped at the Chinaman with his kris

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

"Ahi! If he hurts so much as the little finger of my captain," Memgumban screamed, "I shall tie you to an ant hill." And he leaped at the Chinaman with his kris

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
42 × 30 in. (106.7 × 76.2 cm)

Brandywine Museum of Art, Gift of Lewis C. Ledyard, 1989

Accession number: 88.12
Research Number: NCW: 460
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; James Lynch, Chadds Ford, PA, ?-ca. 1970; Lewis Ledyard, West Grove, PA, ca. 1970-1988
Exhibition HistoryRockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
References Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 70; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 271; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy. 1991), p. 210, illus. b/w p. 207; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.792, p. 397
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting