Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Coast Guard to the Rescue, composition drawing
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Date: ca. 1942
Dimensions:
H: 34 3/8 in, W: 32 in
Accession number: SUPP2000.2111
Research Number: NCW: 2111
InscribedLower right: N.C.W. (underlined)
Provenance[with Chadds Ford Gallery, Chadds Ford, PA, June, 1972]; Collection of Bob and Kay Timberlake, Lexington, NC, to 2006; (Brunk Auctions, Asheville, NC, July 15-16, 2006, lot no. 251);
Exhibition HistoryHigh Point, NC, Sechrest Gallery, High Point University, "Wyeth: Three Generations," May 1 - June 15, 2006; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum of Art holds the lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.139) used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel. NCW 553 is the finished painting.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:courtesy of Bob Timberlake