Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"!!--??' ?? !!--"
Medium: Charcoal, red paint and graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1903
Dimensions:
21 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (55.2 × 39.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1379
Research Number: NCW: 1379
InscribedWithin image at lower right: N C Wyeth; barely legible below border: !!--??' ?? !!--
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to reference librarian, Wilmington Library (name is not verified); Arnold Goldsborough, Wilmington, DE; (with Sommerville Manning Gallery, Nov. 1995)
Exhibition HistoryGreenville, DE, 1995
Curatorial RemarksThe shorthand was the artist's gentleman-ly way of cursing. The same style of inscription occurs on a related oil sketch of the same period (NCW 1610); NCW 472 may also be related.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer