Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Still Life with Apples
Alternate Title(s):Basket of Apples
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1933
Dimensions:
25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.419
Research Number: NCW: 419
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); Lower left: To Anne Douglas McCoy / from CONVERS WYETH / 1936; label attached to frame: #44. STILL LIFE WITH APPLES Painted in N. C. Wyeth's studio at Chadds / Ford, Pennsylvania; incised into frame: F COLL WILM DEL.
ProvenanceThe artist; Anne Douglas McCoy and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1946, no. 16, as "Still Life"; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 44; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 18; Chadds Ford, PA, 1982, no. 6 as "Basket of Apples"
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), S.25, p. 792
Curatorial RemarksResearch for the Chadds Ford 1982 exhibition, which included consultation with Andrew Wyeth, resulted in the ca. 1933 date. The painting retains its original frame by Wilmington carver Frank Coll.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 1/2001