Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Saturday Evening Post, cover illustration
Medium: Oil on canvasboard
Date: 1908
Dimensions:
18 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (46.4 × 46.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1940
Research Number: NCW: 1940
InscribedLower right: N.C.W. (underlined) / 08
ProvenanceJohn B. Williams (employee of Curtis Publishing Company), and descended in family to Joanne L. Sikes; Estate of Joanne L. Sikes, 2007; (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Nov. 28, 2007, lot no. 40);
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 273; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.240, p. 185; Diego Cordoba, "N. C. Wyeth," in Illustrators Magazine (London: The Book Place), Autumn 2018, issue 23, illus. p. 4
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. photography directly from artwork; 2. Image as it appeared on cover of Saturday Evening Post
Photo Credit:1. Courtesy of Sotheby's; 2. BRM staff