Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Maine Woods
Alternate Title(s):Forest by the Sea (Maine Woods)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1925 / 1930
Dimensions:
32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1376
Research Number: NCW: 1376
ProvenanceThe artist; gift to Josephine Harvey Capelle, to 1963; Mr. and Mrs. G. Francis Autman, Jr., by 1965; (?); Collection of John Edward Dell, ca. 1993-1995; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Nov. 1995); Private collection
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 107, as "Maine Woods" ; Greenville, DE, 1995, as "Forest by the Sea (Maine Woods)"
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.154, p. 750
Curatorial RemarksIt is impossible with current information to positively link this painting with "Forest by the Sea-Maine," shown at the Wilmington Society of the Fine Art's February 1925 exhibition. The owner of the painting from 1963 to at least 1993 (who inherited it from the first owner) called it "Maine Woods" and an examination in the mid-1990s revealed no marks or inscriptions on the reverse that could have served as the authority for a different title.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy Sommerville Manning Gallery, 9/2006