"We'll lave it up to the termites," says he, and he sat down and lit another cigarette. He'd smoked three before wan av the termites arrived and bit the poor lip ave me . . .

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

"We'll lave it up to the termites," says he, and he sat down and lit another cigarette. He'd smoked three before wan av the termites arrived and bit the poor lip ave me . . .

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 1914

Dimensions:

23 7/8 × 34 in. (60.6 × 86.4 cm)

Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996

Accession number: 96.1.556

Research Number: NCW: 1618

InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); Verso: , -- 9 5/16 --, / No [1 illegible word] on art

ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth

References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 255; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.546, p. 298

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/2005

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"We'll lave it up to the termites," says he, and he sat down and lit another cigarette. He'd smoked three before wan av the termites arrived and bit the poor lip ave me . . .

N.C. Wyeth

"We'll lave it up to the termites," says he, and he sat down and lit another cigarette. He'd smoked three before wan av the termites arrived and bit the poor lip ave me . . .