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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882 - 1945)

Lot 136: Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Christie's

May 19, 2005
New York, NY, US

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Description

Gavotte
signed 'N.C. WYETH.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 x 25 in. (83.8 63.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1914.

Artist or Maker

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Literature

D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 220.

Provenance

The artist.
Mrs. N.C. Wyeth to circa 1967.
Private collection, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.

Notes

Property from an Important Western Collection

The present work was an illustration for the 1914 publication Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart.

This work is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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