Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):Children on Sleds
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1923
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection
(Popular Magazine is the property of Conde Nast.)
Accession number: SUPP2000.1401
Research Number: NCW: 1401
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); visible through wax lining on upper portion of reverse of canvas in black: #184; written on center bar: Graham # 84
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, to 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, 1964 to at least 1971); (?); Private collection and descended in family
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 3, as "Children on Sleds"; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers
References
Hilton Kramer, "The Season Surveyed," Art in America, vol. 52, no. 3 (June 1964), illustration p. 112; American Heritage Magazine, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Dec. 1971), cover illustration; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.964, p. 456
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was examined by Sandy Webber of Williamstown Art Conservation (July 2006) using an Infra-red Vidicon system; she found no evidence that the Popular Magazine title was painted directly onto the canvas.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. Digital photography directly from artwork; 2. Photography from printed source.
Photo Credit:1. Courtesy Williamstown Art Conservation Center; 2. Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana