Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Abraham Lincoln
Medium: Oil on hardboard (Renaissance Panel)
Date: 1938 / 1939
Dimensions:
26 3/8 × 24 3/4 in. (67 × 62.9 cm)
Gift of John Morrell & Company. In the permanent collection,
University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Image © University Museums, Iowa State University, 2006
http://www.museums.iastate.edu
Accession number: SUPP2000.847
Research Number: NCW: 847
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); adhered to reverse, Renaissance Panel label, no. 712, dated 8/11/38
ProvenanceJohn Morrell & Company, Ottumwa, IA, to 1940
Exhibition HistoryOttumwa, IA, 1940; Ames, IA, Brunnier Art Museum, "N. C. Wyeth: America in the Making," Nov. 2, 2010-May 8, 2011;
References
N. C. Wyeth, Income tax notes for 1939 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum); Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), ps. 156, 291; Tom Brokaw, et al., One Nation Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000), color illustration, fig. 6 on p. 7; Gabor Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma, The Changing Faces of an American Icon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), ps. 170-171; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.132, p. 681
Curatorial RemarksAccording to Wyeth's income tax notes for 1939, (Brandywine River Museum library), expenses for this painting included the rental of a coat ($5.00), the purchase of a life mask ($8.50) and the purchase of a group of portrait photos ($6.80). The life mask, ordered from P. P. Caproni Brothers of Boston, is still in the Wyeth studio collection (NCWS.95.1534, Brandywine River Museum). The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.163) of the composition drawing used in the transfer of the design from paper to panel and an archival photograph of the drawing (#3202).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Iowa State University Photo Service, 11/2000