Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Portrait of Stanley M. Arthurs
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1935
Dimensions:
28 × 22 1/8 in. (71.1 × 56.2 cm)
State of Delaware, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
Accession number: SUPP2000.876
Research Number: NCW: 876
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH / 1935; stamped on tacking edge, lower left: 1935; written in red on top stretcher member: 26182
ProvenanceMrs. John W. Arthurs, Smyrna, DE; gift to the state of Delaware, 1953
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, DE, 1968, no. 28; Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, "Stanley M. Arthurs," May 3 - June 16, 1974, illus. b/w p. 7, no. 107 on pg. 47
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 197; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), P.49, p. 822-823
Curatorial RemarksWyeth was the only artist member of "The Committee on Publication of Stanley Arthurs Historical Paintings," organized in Wilmington, DE in 1934 to produce a printed tribute to Stanley Arthurs (1877 - 1950), a fellow Howard Pyle School student. In addition to soliciting written selections for the publication (for example, see N. C. Wyeth to Kenneth Roberts, Sept. 23, 1934, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College), Wyeth contributed his own essay (based on Arthurs's painting "The Quiet Custom House") and this portrait.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 2/8/2006