Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The next morning Kenyon found her just outside Ferguson's shack, prone on the fallen leaves.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1991
Research Number: NCW: 1991
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) / 11 (from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.367, p. 238
Curatorial RemarksAuthor Mary Synon was particularly pleased with the illustrations for this story, citing Wyeth's "sympathetic understanding of the North Country people" (Mary Synon to NCW, Jan. 24, 1912, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 5/2005