Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Howard Pyle's Studio
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
12 × 8 in. (30.5 × 20.3 cm)
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Donald Carpenter, 1986
Accession number: SUPP2000.1082
Research Number: NCW: 1082
InscribedOn reverse: HOWARD PYLE'S STUDIO / WILMINGTON, DEL / A SKETCH MADE BY N. C. WYETH / ABOUT 1904 or 1905 / THIS WAS GIVEN TO ANTON KAMP / CHRISTMAS 1925 BY THE ARTIST'S / MOTHER MRS. A. N. WYETH; paper label adhered to reverse: PROPERTY OF MR. AND MRS. RICHARD LAYTON
ProvenanceThe artist; Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, 1903 - ca. 1925; Anton Kamp; Richard Layton, Wilmington, DE, to 1986; purchased by the Delaware Art Museum with funds provided by Mrs. Donald Carpenter
Exhibition HistoryHarrisburg, PA, 1965, no. 11; Wilmington, DE, 1968, no. 26; Chadds Ford, PA, 2002(2)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), p. 33; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), illustration in b/w p. 23; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.1, p. 703
Curatorial RemarksIn a letter written in early March 1903, Wyeth called this "as truthful a sketch as I ever painted" (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, "It's raining as usual" and dated in another hand March 9, 1903, Wyeth Family Archives). He sent the small canvas, a picture of Pyle's Franklin Street studio, to his mother later that month.
The inscription on the reverse must have been written sometime after Mrs. A. N. Wyeth gave the painting to Anton Kamp, for Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth died August 11, 1925.
The inscription on the reverse must have been written sometime after Mrs. A. N. Wyeth gave the painting to Anton Kamp, for Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth died August 11, 1925.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting