Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

The Girl Saw That Ivan Had Grappled With The Floundering Man

Details

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
The Girl Saw That Ivan Had Grappled With The Floundering Man
signed and dated 'N.C. Wyeth/-1905-' (lower right)
oil on canvas
38 x 26 in. (96.5 x 66 cm.)

Provenance

Hunter Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1976.

Literature

D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 200.

Lot Essay

The present work was initially used as a black and white illustration for Warren Cheney's The Challenge, published in 1906.

This painting is I.45 (1750) in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné and is included in the catalogue raisonné database that are being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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