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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
"A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thriced blessed."
signed 'NC/Wyeth' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1921.

The artist.
[With]Mannados Book Shop, New York, until 1954.
[With]Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1954-58.
Mr. W.J. Hopwood, Winnipeg, Canada.
By descent in the family of the above.
[With]J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, 1985.
Robert and Carolyn Wohlson, until 1999.
[With]Schoonover Studios, Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, 1999.
Private collection.
[With]Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000.

Specialist note

The present work was painted as an illustration for Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle published by David McKay Company in 1921.

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