Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Captain Blaise, headpiece illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Destroyed Oct. 1916
Accession number: SUPP2000.1987
Research Number: NCW: 1987
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY; Destroyed Oct. 27, 1916
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.358, p. 235
Curatorial RemarksAccording to a notation in a Scribner's file, this painting was destroyed on Oct. 27, 1916 (Scribner's Archive, card no. 28621, Brandywine River Museum Library).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from printed source (Brandywine River Museum library, tear sheet)
Photo Credit:Web: BRM staff; Publication: Rick Echelmeyer, digital photography from printed source (bound tear sheet), 7/11/2006