Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"And They Were Abominably Given To Song"
Alternate Title(s):Chanting Their Sagas
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
16 7/8 × 25 7/8 in. (42.9 × 65.7 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1344
Research Number: NCW: 1344
InscribedLower right: N. C. W. (boxed)
Provenance(J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY, 1993, as "Chanting Their Sagas"); (Illustration House, New York, NY, Nov. 5, 1994, lot no. 104); (?); Douglas Allen, 1995; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1995); Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.67, p. 122
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 271
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/6/2006