Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
She still cooked for us when Tom asked her, but she never touched a pill herself. If there is any harder test for will power, you'll have to show it to me
Alternate Title(s):A Thief's Daughter; The Gangster's Daughter
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
32 × 44 in. (81.3 × 111.8 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Gift of Betty Oakes Ward in memory of Margaret Oakes Hoffman, 1993
Accession number: 93.23
Research Number: NCW: 1054
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse, adhered to canvas, fragments of an (American) Magazine label; nailed to stretcher, a piece of heavy paper in NCW's hand: THE GANGSTERS / DAUGHTER / Painted for the American Magazine / about 1914 / N. C. WYETH; nailed to stretcher, a piece of heavy paper in NCW's hand: The Girl is preparing opium / for smoking--called "cooking / pills" over an [sic] sweet oil lamp / N. C. W.
ProvenanceThe artist; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hoffman, Chadds Ford, PA, ca. 1920; Elizabeth Oakes Ward, 1989-1993
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 252; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.536, p. 296
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting