Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The End (illustration for The Pike County Ballads)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
location unknown
Accession number: SUPP2000.1333
Research Number: NCW: 1333
InscribedLower right: P. 47
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth (and with Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, #54860/S3314); Collection of Mrs. James Fosburgh, New York, NY, 1957
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1957, no. 85
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 206; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.412, p. 251
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w illustration p. 47, John Hay, The Pike County Ballads (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912)
Photo Credit:Courtesy Knoedler & Company, New York