Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
So cool...so cooling (advertisement for Coca-Cola)
Date: ca. 1937
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Used by permission, Courtesy of The Coca-Cola Company Archives
Accession number: SUPP2000.2296
Research Number: NCW: 2296
InscribedLower left: W (with dots at two points, from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 294; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.113, p. 673
Curatorial RemarksThis work was done through the D'Arcy Advertising Company and the Forbes Litho Co. The date is based on the year of publication. The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.223) of a charcoal composition drawing showing slight differences in the snow formations.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:web: BRM staff; hardcover: Rick Echelmeyer