Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Jacques Marquette
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1938 / 1939
Dimensions:
27 × 25 in. (68.6 × 63.5 cm)
Gift of John Morrell & Company. In the permanent collection,
University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Image © University Museums, Iowa State University, 2006
http://www.museums.iastate.edu
Accession number: SUPP2000.838
Research Number: NCW: 838
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse, Renaissance Panel label, no. 713, dated 8/11/38
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1940
Exhibition HistoryOttumwa, IA, 1940; Ames, IA, Brunnier Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth: America in the Making," Nov. 2, 2010-May 8, 2011;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 156, 291; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.125, p. 679
Curatorial RemarksAlthough this panel was purchased on August 11, 1938, along with eight other panels used for the series, the painting does not appear among 11 recorded in the artist's 1939 income tax notes for the Morrell & Company commission (library, Brandywine River Museum). The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.162) of the composition drawing which the artist used to transfer the design from paper to panel; and a mounted proof, stamped on the reverse: THIS DESIGN / IS SUBMITTED BY / NIAGARA LITHO. CO. / NEW YORK / WHO RESERVE THE / EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO ITS / REPRODUCTION AND TO / WHOM IT MUST BE / RETURNED. / NO. (added in ink) 41061 (NCWS.95.6562).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency
Photo Credit:Iowa State University Photo Service, 11/2000