Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Date: 1911
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2383
Research Number: NCW: 2383
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
ProvenanceHenry William Ralston, Sr., Vice President, Street & Smith, New York, NY, and descended in family; (New York, NY, Sotheby's, Nov. 2016, lot no. )
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 269; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.354, p. 234
Curatorial RemarksThis is the first of similar magazine covers that depict a farmer on top of a hay wagon, a motif Popular Magazine chose to illustrate again in 1912 (NCW 1317) and one the artist returned to as late as 1944 (NCW 1944).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:image from printed source; Courtesy, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (***if Lilly photography is used, obtain permission to publish before use in hardcover or website).
Photo Credit:1. Courtesy Sotheby's; 2. Courtesy, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 8/2005