Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Lot 11

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Sea Monster

Closed6 December 2012

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Sea Monster
signed with initial 'W' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16¾ x 27 in. (42.5 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1922.

Dr. John Oliver La Gorce (President and Editor, National Geographic Society 1954-1957) by mid-1930s.
Gifted to the National Geographic Society by Dr. La Gorce's widow, Ethel Bloedorn, 1963.

Specialist note

This image was used as the cover illustration for the 1923 calendar for the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. It relates to four panoramic murals painted by Wyeth in 1915 for the walls of the submarine grill at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City. Wyeth and La Gorce shared a love of pirate lore, and through this shared interest, La Gorce acquired this painting.