Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Boy Columbus on the Wharf at Genoa
Alternate Title(s):The Vision of Columbus
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
40 × 29 in. (101.6 × 73.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1792
Research Number: NCW: 1792
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, attached to stretcher, a typewritten label: The Boy Columbus on the Wharf at Genoa. Painting by N. C. Wyeth for / the Frontispiece to the New Geography Book One by Alexis Everett Frye.
Provenanceprobably owned by Alexis Everett Frye (d. 1944); (with Boston art gallery in early 1930s); purchased by Charles H. Thurber, editor at Ginn and Company, and descended in family; (with Appleton Arts, Camden, ME, on-line sale, Nov. 2010); (New York, NY, Sotheby's, Nov. 18. 2015, lot no. 51);
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 205; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.676, p. 352
Curatorial RemarksThe name "C. H. Thurber" appears in the artist's address book (NCWS.95.1174. BRM) with the Boston address of Ginn and Company.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Web: Image courtesy of Appleton Arts, Camden, Maine; Publication: Rick Echelmeyer, digital photography from printed source, 7/11/2006