Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates, cover illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1932
Dimensions:
33 1/4 × 28 in. (84.5 × 71.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.498
Research Number: NCW: 498
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceMrs. Harlan Potts, Sr, and descended in family, to ca. 1970; (George Turak, Newark, DE); (?); (Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1979 - 1981)
References
"The Stouthearted Heroes of a Beloved Painter," Life Magazine, vol. 43, no. 24, (Dec. 9, 1957), color illustration p. 93; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 226; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1184, p. 540
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:web: Brandywine River Museum, catalogue raisonne files; hardcover, Courtesy of Newman Galleries