Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Jody Finds the Fawn
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1939
Dimensions:
30 1/16 × 22 5/16 in. (76.4 × 56.7 cm)
Private collection, PA
Accession number: SUPP2000.1698
Research Number: NCW: 1698
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / (one line confidentional) / Xmas - 1942; painted on reverse of panel: The FAWN; adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label No. 769 dated 3/24/(19)39; inscribed on label: Illustration for "The Yearling" by Marjorie K. Rawlings / Painted by N. C. Wyeth 1938
ProvenanceThe artist to 1942; Christmas gift to yound friend
Exhibition Historyprobably Clearwater, FL, 1941
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1277, p. 575
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.
At least eight of Wyeth's paintings for The Yearling, including this one, were used as models for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1946 movie adaptation of the book. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings felt that "the most effective shots in the film were exact reproductions of (Wyeth's) paintings." (Time Magazine, vol. XLIX, no. 6 (Feb. 10, 1947), p. 12)
At least eight of Wyeth's paintings for The Yearling, including this one, were used as models for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1946 movie adaptation of the book. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings felt that "the most effective shots in the film were exact reproductions of (Wyeth's) paintings." (Time Magazine, vol. XLIX, no. 6 (Feb. 10, 1947), p. 12)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from artwork
Photo Credit:Hughes Photographics