Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece [view of buildings on fire at top of cliff]
Alternate Title(s):The burning of the poultry-yard.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (24.1 × 29.2 cm)
Private Collection, CT
Accession number: SUPP2000.2408
Research Number: NCW: 2408
Inscribedin ink below image: END of CHAP. IX; upper right: 44 (circled); on verso: Wyeth -- Mysterious Island
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Private collection, PA; (Doe Run Books, Chadds Ford, PA)
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602, letter numbers 492, 493; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222 as "The burning of the poultry-yard."
Curatorial RemarksThe artist completed all of the pen and ink drawings for The Mysterious Island during the first two weeks of August, 1918 (NCW to HZW, 8/14/1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:owner (2010)