Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
One might have thought that he did not care
Date: 1905
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1672
Research Number: NCW: 1672
InscribedLower right: N. C. Wyeth (underlined) / -05 (from reproduction)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 259; Alexander Nemerov, "The Boy in the Bed: The Scene of Reading in N. C. Wyeth's Wreck of the "Covenant,"" The Art Bulletin, vol. LXXXVIII, no. 1 (March 2006), ps. 21-23; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.53, p. 119
Curatorial RemarksThe illustrations for this story were the first Wyeth did for Harper's Monthly Magazine. In a letter to his mother the artist admits, "The Harper's work I am battling with. I have started two of them all over again much to my pleasure and relief as my first two attempts were failures (NCW to Henriette Zirngiebel Wyeth, April 2, 1905, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from printed image (Brandywine River Museum Library)
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 6/16/2005