Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Thanksgiving Day
Alternate Title(s):Early New England
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1921
Dimensions:
33 1/2 × 30 in. (85.1 × 76.2 cm)
Private collection, Bernardsville, NJ
Accession number: SUPP2000.1016
Research Number: NCW: 1016
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceCharles Daniel Frey, Chicago, IL, to at least Feb. 1947; (?); (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, July 10-11, 1980, lot no. 88); Private collection, Bernardsville, NJ; (Christie's, NY, NY, Dec. 4, 2008, lot no. 126; did not sell)
References
Joseph F. Dinneen, "Wyeth, Noted Illustrator, Back in Needham Home," Sunday Globe Magazine (Boston), March 25, 1923, illus. p. 12; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr. N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 287; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), C.52, p. 655
Curatorial RemarksThe Canterbury Company of Chicago, owned by advertising executive Charles Daniel Frey, published a complete bank advertising which included posters used as window displays. Frey's ownership of this painting is confirmed by a letter to James P. Simpson, Feb. 14 1947 (Brandywine River Museum library). The BRM library also holds a black and white photograph (8 x 11 1/2 inches) documenting the original appearance of the painting, with a blank text block surrounded by a painted frame below the image. The photograph is mounted; the artist wrote "Early New England" in the lower right of the cardboard support.
In a 1923 article about Wyeth published in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, a reproduction of this image was accompanied by the following caption: "Everybody in America will remember this Thrift Campaign Poster."
In a 1923 article about Wyeth published in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, a reproduction of this image was accompanied by the following caption: "Everybody in America will remember this Thrift Campaign Poster."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. transparency directly from painting; 2. archival photograph (Brandywine River Museum library), showing original appearance of painting
Photo Credit:1. Jack Abraham, 8/2004; 2. no photographer credited