Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
He heard her sob her way up-stairs
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1671
Research Number: NCW: 1671
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.52, p. 118-119
Curatorial RemarksThe illustrations for this story were the first Wyeth did for Harper's Monthly Magazine. His success with them was the reason why the editors at Harper's sent him another story to illustrate. "You can't imagine what satisfaction that gives me; to think that I succeeded in making three illustrations for them whose subjects were entirely foreign to me...(as they were full of the subtle feeling and emotion that seems so apart from me" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "How about the new stationery?" and dated in another hand May 5, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer