Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Popular Magazine, cover illustration
Alternate Title(s):The Pearl Fishers; Man in Small Boat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1915
Dimensions:
34 × 24 1/8 in. (86.4 × 61.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1280
Research Number: NCW: 1280
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); inscribed on reverse: from V. Price
ProvenanceStreet & Smith, New York, NY, through 1961; Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1962-1964; (with Graham Gallery, New York, NY, 1964); (Sears Roebuck & Co., Vincent Price Collection, 1964); Sara G. Goldstein (Sara G. Goldstein Living Trust); (Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 19, 2010, lot no. 73, as "The Pearl Fishers" )
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, 1964, no. 20 as "Man in Small Boat"
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.589, p. 313
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy of McCaughen & Burr, Inc., 1993