Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He stopped two or three steps up and sang me a little song-quite like the old Dave
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Dimensions:
47 × 38 in. (119.4 × 96.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1071
Research Number: NCW: 1071
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 1913; on reverse: WAR
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth; (Frank E. Fowler, 1979-1981); (Morris Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, 1981-1988); Private collection, Atlanta, GA
Exhibition HistoryAlbany, GA, 1981, no. 11
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York; Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 210; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.481, p. 278
Curatorial RemarksThe publisher, Bobbs-Merrill, suggested Wyeth's name to John Luther Long; the letter and Long's agreement are part of the Bobbs-Merrill archives held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. In the John Luther Long collection at the Harry Ransom Center, Universtiy of Texas at Austin, there is no archival material that suggests Wyeth and Long corresponded about the illustrations.
The set of illustrations for "War" was painted in the "Tank House studio" on the Wyeth property in Needham during the winter of 1912-1913 (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, May 15, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives).
The set of illustrations for "War" was painted in the "Tank House studio" on the Wyeth property in Needham during the winter of 1912-1913 (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, May 15, 1914, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork