Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

"Michael Was Running on across the Steppe Endeavouring to Gain the Covert of Some Trees when a Detachment of Tartar Cavalry Appeared on the Right"

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
"Michael Was Running on across the Steppe Endeavouring to Gain the Covert of Some Trees when a Detachment of Tartar Cavalry Appeared on the Right"
signed 'NC Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 30½ in. (101.6 x 77.5 cm.)
Painted in 1927.

Provenance

The artist.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

J. Verne, Michael Strogoff: A Courier of Czar, New York, 1927, n.p., illustrated.
D. Allen, D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 222.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 2, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 496, no. I1048 (489), illustrated.

Exhibited

Spartanburg, South Carolina, Wofford College Library, April 10-30, 1970.
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, N.C. Wyeth, March 9-May 26, 1974, no. 11.

Lot Essay

On May 25, 1927, Wyeth wrote to one of his brothers, "I have just left my easle [sic] after seven hours straight of concentrated identification with a phase of the tartar invasion of Russia during Alexander II reign,..."

Please note that this lot includes a copy of the 1927 edition of Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff, for which this illustration was created.

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