Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
One last tremendous cut which would certainly have split him to the chin[e] had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow
Alternate Title(s):At the Admiral Benbow; Bill Bones Routes (sic) Black Dog; Capt. Bones Routs Blackdog; Captain Bones Routs Black Dog
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
47 1/16 × 38 in. (119.5 × 96.5 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Ann Wyeth McCoy, 2006
Accession number: 2001.12
Research Number: NCW: 14
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / '11; lower left: © Charles Scribner's Sons; on reverse, a piece of canvas adhered to stretcher with pencil writing: [illegible] which would certainly have split him / to the chin had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of [illegible]
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, NY, to 1915; purchased in 1915 by Bartlett Arkell, for the Fort Rensselaer Club, Canajoharie, NY; (Vose Gallery, Boston, MA, 1953); Mr. and Mrs John W. McCoy II; Mrs. John W. McCoy II
Exhibition HistoryBoston, MA. 1912, no. 3 as "Bill Bones Routes (sic) Black Dog"; Philadelphia, PA, 1912 (1), no. 29 as "Capt. Bones Routs Blackdog"; Haverhill, MA, 1913; San Francisco, CA, 1915, no. 64; San Francisco, CA, 1916, no. 6623; Harrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 76; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 20; Chadds Ford, PA, 1971, no. 59, illus. b/w p. 51 as "At the Admiral Benbow"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 54 as "At the Admiral Benbow"; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 41, as "At the Admiral Benbow"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1975; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976 (1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1987(2), no. 13, illus. in color, p. 103, also, pp. 29, 81; Chadds Ford, PA 1990 (1); Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth and The Philadelphia Sketch Club," March 20 - May 23, 2010; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "N. C. Wyeth's Treasure Island: Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale," Sept. 10- Nov. 20, 2011; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 22-Sept. 15, 2019 (and Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art, Oct. 4, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020), "N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," illus. p. 133
References
John Lewis, The Twentieth Century Book (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1967), illus. p. 206; Delaware County Scene, Sept.-Oct. 1972, b/w illus. p. 2; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 218, b/w illus. p. 80; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.333, p. 221; Jerry N. Weiss, "Designed for the Printed Page," The Artist's Magazine, vol. 30, no. 9 (November 2013), illust. in color p. 70.
Curatorial RemarksThe text Wyeth selected to illustrate for this picture reads "One last tremendous cut which would certainly have split him to the chine...." Due to a printer's error in the first edition, however, "chine" became "chin" in the list of illustrations and on the tissue facing the illustration. That error was subsequently repeated in the list of illustrations and underneath the image until the mistake was corrected in the 1981 edition.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting