Description:
N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)
"Sure, It's Professor Grid to the life!" he said admiringly, 1910
Signed "N.C. W..." (underlined) u.l., identified on a label from
Scribner's Magazine affixed to the frame backing.
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined, retouch, minute paint losses at edges.
Provenance: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, to 1919; Mrs. A.N. Wyeth, Needham, Massachusetts, c. 1919; gift to Alfretta Archibald Butterfield, then by descent within the family.
Literature: Dorothy Canfield, "Portrait of a Philosopher," Scribner's Magazine, vol. XLIX, no. 4 (April 1911),b&w illustration, p. 451; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr. N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972),p. 275; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008),I.323, p. 216; Brandywine River Museum, N.C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonne, (accessed March 26, 2011),"Sure, it's Professor Grid to the life!" he said admiringly., 1910, NCW Number 663, www.ncwyeth.org.
Estimate $40,000-60,000
The lining is relatively new and is adhered with glue or resin. The retouch is primarily to a series of vertical striations running from top to bottom through the figure of the woman. There are additional scattered dashes of retouch. The surface is stable.