Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
Lot 29

NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)

"'Don't let me fall,' she begged…"

Closed18 April 2024

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NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
Wyeth, N.C.
"'Don't let me fall,' she begged…"
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (upper left)
oil on canvas
40 ¼ x 30 ¼ in. (102.2 x 76.8 cm.)
Painted in 1921.

The artist.
Wyeth family.
Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1972.
Hammer Galleries, New York, by 1996.
Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1996.

Specialist note

The present work is an illustration for Herbert Quick's 1921 frontier story “Vandermark’s Folly,” originally published in Ladies' Home Journal.