Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"I've promised you I would. I will promise every time you ask me."
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1915
Dimensions:
approximately 34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1162
Research Number: NCW: 1162
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); written directly on canvas in blue: B10105 (crossed out) / 6323 B / --4 7/8-- BW / Crop as per instruction / on proof; Remnants of Scribner's label adhered directly to canvas: THIS COPYRIGHTED PICTURE, etc.; written on top stretcher member: B10404 / Nan color size to match the others; written on bottom stretcher member: (2 illegible lines crossed out) / (inscription on canvas repeated); Printed label adhered to top stretcher member: HADERER CO. / ART SHOP / PICTURE FRAMING / ARTIST SUPPLIES / 209 W. (torn) ST. / WILMINGTON, DEL.; label adhered to top frame member: (name illegible) Art Shop / ARTISTIC FRAMING REGUILDING / 900 SIXTH AVENUE / NEAR (illegible) / NEW YORK
ProvenanceThe artist (returned to him from Scribner's, 1/10/1917, #B10404); (?); descended in family to present owner; (New York, NY, Sotheby's, May 21, 2019, lot no. 27)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 218; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.571, p. 308
Curatorial RemarksThe Scribner's edition was published in April, 1916, the same month Everybody's Magazine concluded a four-month serialization of the story with illustrations by Charles Sarka (1879-1960).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Dean Burton, 6/2006