Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"This Is What Tobey Was Doin! He Was Catchin' Butterflies"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
30 1/4 × 39 in. (76.8 × 99.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.762
Research Number: NCW: 762
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of canvas and crossed out: SIM / May Everybody's / "All the Brothers" II
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; John Wyeth, early 1960s to 1991; (New York, NY, Illustration House, Nov. 2, 1991, lot no. 115); Private collection, NY, NY to 2014; (New York, NY, Heritage American Art Auction, Nov. 17, 2014, lot no. 68299);
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.844, p. 415
Curatorial RemarksThe inscription on the reverse of the canvas suggests the artist reused this canvas and that the image below is either NCW 1663 or 1664, illustrations for the May 1919 installment of Ben Ames Williams's story "All the Brothers Were Valiant," published in Everybody's Magazine.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jeffrey Sturges, 9/11/2006