Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Jody Lost
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 × 23 1/4 in. (76.2 × 59.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.836
Research Number: NCW: 836
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / TO EMILY & BILL; adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label no. 759, prepared 3/2/(19)39; written on Renaissance label in the artist's hand: Original illustration for / "The Yearling" / by the author / Marjorie Rawlings; painted directly on reverse of panel: JODY LOST
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Mr. and Mrs. William H. McCoy
Exhibition HistoryProbably Clearwater, FL, 1941; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 16
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1284, p. 578
Curatorial RemarksHenry White Taylor was the first director of the Clearwater (Florida) Art Museum but prior to this post was in the Bucks County-Philadlephia region, a former student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had met N. C. Wyeth by 1928 and was probably the organizer of the exhibition in Clearwater of Wyeth's Yearling paintings.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 4/2003