Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Send him back? Not a bit of it! We're going to hang him higher than Haman"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
approximately 34 x 25 1/4 in. (86.3 x 64.1 cm)
Location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.965
Research Number: NCW: 965
InscribedLower left : N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (Nicholas Wyeth); Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Kramer, by 1971
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1971, plate XXII, p. 23
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 69; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 258; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.431, p. 257
Curatorial RemarksMost of the pictures for this commission were probably complete by May 11, 1912, when Wyeth wrote to his mother (WFA) that he had just shipped off the products of "10 days hard labor...pictures of war, of soldiers and guns, and men with hard strife-worn faces!"
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonne files