Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"Sure, it's Professor Grid to the life!" he said admiringly.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.663
Research Number: NCW: 663
InscribedUpper left: N. C. Wyeth (underlined); Scribner's label adhered to reverse of canvas, #27859, handwritten: "Sure it's Prof. Grid to the life!"
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, to 1919; Mrs. A. N. Wyeth, Needham, MA, ca. 1919; gift to Alfretta Archibald Butterfield, and descended in family; (Boston, MA, Skinner, Inc., May 20, 2011, lot no. 519; did not sell)
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.323, p. 216
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography from printed image (Brandywine River Museum, mounted tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 8/16/2006