$220,000
Estimate: $120,000 - $180,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 7, 2014 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'N C Wyeth' lower left, oil on canvas, unframed
40 1/2 x 30 in. (102.9 x 76.2cm)Provenance
The Artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1923.
Property from the Wilmington Institute Library.
Exhibited
"N.C. Wyeth: An Exhibition of Illustrations for Children's Classics," The Wilmington Library, Wilmington, Delaware, April 24-May 31, 1981.
(Possibly) Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1923.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,? - October 25, 1921.
Literature
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. one, London, 2008, p. 408, no. I.823, (illustrated).
D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 203.
D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, New York, 1920, opp. p. 312, (illustrated).