Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Ah say, bredren, who's agwine abo'd de ship wid all dem angles? Is you, brudder?"
Alternate Title(s):Three Men on a Raft (Lumber boat)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1919
Dimensions:
34 1/4 × 25 1/8 in. (87 × 63.8 cm)
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum,
Museum purchase (Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Fund), 1965
Accession number: SUPP2000.454
Research Number: NCW: 454
InscribedBottom center: WYETH (underlined); label on reverse of canvas: TRF-12-73 / 3 MEN ON A RAFT / by N. C. WYETH; label on reverse of canvas: N. C. W. "Men on a Raft" - Farnsworth / from Collier's 7/5/19 / Caption "Ah say bredren, who's agwine / abo'd de ship wid all dem angles? / is you brudder?
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1965
Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 1966, no. 42, as "Three Men on a Raft (Lumber boat)"; Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "The Wyeths, America's Artists," Jan. 15-April 17, 2011;
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 256; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.770, 392
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital image directly from painting
Photo Credit:Courtesy of the Farnsworth Art Museum