Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Adventure with a Giant Squid, composition drawing
Alternate Title(s):Adventure with a Giant Squid, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1940
Dimensions:
24 1/8 × 15 1/2 in. (61.3 × 39.4 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.544
Research Number: NCW: 2070
Inscribedno marks
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
Exhibition HistoryCooperstown, NY, Fenimore Art Museum, "Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies," May 7-September 5, 2022.
References
Victoria Browning Wyeth, Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies (Cooperstown, NY: 2022), p. 56.
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.66) made from the drawing and used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel (NCW 1013).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer