Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Coming toward the camp was a regulation Santa Claus--red breeches, boots, pack and all. For a minute or two we were too paralyzed to move"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1927
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
December 1927 Ladies' Home Journal® Magazine. Used with permission of the publisher.
Accession number: SUPP2000.1385
Research Number: NCW: 1385
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 263; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1054, p. 498
Curatorial Remarks"I have been doing an Xmas illustration for the Home Journal to accompany a story by Harold Bell Wright. Somehow this author always manages to infuse me with his dominating trait of deadly commonplaceness, and I invariably have a struggle to pull a picture into something respectable. It's been a fight on this one from the first, and although it looks as though the results will be passable, I feel very uncomfortable about it" (NCW to Stimson Wyeth, Aug. 4, 1927, WFA).
This canvas (or the stretcher bars) may have been reused by Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth's "Corn Harvest" (ca. 1935) has the following inscription on the stretcher: "A DESERT SANTA CLAUS" / N. C. WYETH - FULL COLOR
This canvas (or the stretcher bars) may have been reused by Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth's "Corn Harvest" (ca. 1935) has the following inscription on the stretcher: "A DESERT SANTA CLAUS" / N. C. WYETH - FULL COLOR
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/16/2005