Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Day was breaking as, unhindered, Radcliffe passed the barrier.
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1655
Research Number: NCW: 1655
InscribedUpper left: 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, 1972), p. 258; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.435, p. 258
Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source (Wilmington Public Library)
Photo Credit:Colourworks, Wilmington, DE