Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Silver Wave-Maine Coast
Alternate Title(s):Silver Surf
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1934
Dimensions:
34 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (87 × 102.2 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1169
Research Number: NCW: 1169
InscribedLower right: TO "REDS" / from / CONVERS -'43 / N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist to 1943; gift to a friend and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryPossibly Utica, NY, 1938, as "Silver Surf"; Chadds Ford, PA, 2003
References
"Exhibit of Wyeth Paintings Opens at Institute Today," Utica Daily Press, March 12, 1938, p. 14; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.185, p. 761
Curatorial RemarksTitle authority for this painting comes from a notation by N. C. Wyeth on reverse of an archival photo stamped: SANBORN STUDIO / WIL. DEL. and inscribed in the artist's hand: Silver Wave-Maine Coast / N. C. Wyeth.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 1992