Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Pike County Ballads, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.1428
Research Number: NCW: 1428
ProvenanceNathaniel Wyeth (artist's brother) to 1954
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.379, p. 242
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography from printed source (Brandywine River Museum, N.C. Wyeth archives, scrapbook A)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2006