NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)

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ID 1561442
Los 95 | NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
"I stood like one thunderstruck, or as I had seen an apparition."
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 ½ x 30 in. (102.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1920.




Provenance

The artist.
Wilmington Institute Library, Wilmington, Delaware, acquired from the above, 1923.
Freeman's, New York, 7 December 2014, lot 66, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, New York, 1920, opp. p. 204, illustrated.
"Wyeth Illustrates the Classics," New York Herald, December 5, 1920, p. 89, illustrated (as The Footprint).
"Wyeth's Illustrations," Boston Transcript, November 28, 1921.
Boston Sunday Herald, December 24, 1922, n.p., illustrated (as The Discovery of the Footprint).
"The Stouthearted Heroes of a Beloved Painter," Life, vol. XLIII, no. 24, December 9, 1957, n.p., illustrated.
D. Allen, D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 203.
C. Billman, "N.C. Wyeth," American History Illustrated, vol XX, no. 10, February 1986, p. 30, illustrated.
K.F. Jennings, N.C. Wyeth, New York, 1992, p. 59, illustrated.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, pp. 406-07, no. I.819, illustrated.
J.A. Menges, N.C. Wyeth: Great Illustrations, Mineola, New York, 2011, p. 85, illustrated.



Exhibited

Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, April 26-30, 1921, no. 83 (as Robinson Crusoe discovers footprint).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1921.
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston City Club, Exhibition of Illustrative Paintings by N.C. Wyeth, December 11, 1922-January 9, 1923.
(Possibly) Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Public Library, April 1923.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Sights of the Sea, September 9-November 19, 1978.
Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Library, N.C. Wyeth: An Exhibition of Illustrations for Children's Classics, April 24-May 31, 1981.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Classic Illustrations of N.C. Wyeth, January 12-May 19, 1985.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, N.C. Wyeth Gallery, February 5-March 14, 2010
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum; Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, June 22, 2019-January 12, 2020, p. 161, illustrated.
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