Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
"For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well--,"
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40½ x 30 in. (102.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1920.
Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
"For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well--,"
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40½ x 30 in. (102.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1920.
The artist.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1923.
D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, New York, 1920, n.p., frontispiece illustration.
Sir E. Wrench, "The British Way," National Geographic, April 1949, p. 481, illustrated.
D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 203.
B. Selcraig, "The Real Robinson Crusoe," Smithsonian, July 2005, p. 82, illustrated.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. one, London, 2008, p. 403, no. I.811, illustrated.
Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, April 26-30, 1921, no. 64 (as Robinson Crusoe Sails around his Island).
(Possibly) Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Public Library, April 1923.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Romance and Adventure with Pictures by N.C. Wyeth, January 17-May 24, 1976.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Sights of the Sea, September 9-November 19, 1978.
Wilmington, Delaware, The Wilmington Library, N.C. Wyeth: An Exhibition of Illustrations for Children's Classics, April 24-May 31, 1981.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Classic Illustrations of N.C. Wyeth, January 12-May 19, 1985.
Please note that the present lot is being offered without a frame.
