
Newell Convers Wyeth(1882-1945)So Hate That is Brother to Death Was in the Heart of Craftainy the Harper for Cormac Conloingias (The Lovers) 22 1/2 x 52in
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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 52in
Painted circa 1919.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. N.C. Wyeth, by descent.
Carolyn Wyeth, the artist's daughter, by descent.
Fenn Galleries, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1969.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beard, III.
Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, 1991.
Private collection, North Carolina, acquired from the above.
Gift to the present owner, 2006.
Exhibited
Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Howard Pyle and the Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination, September 1-October 23, 1983, pp. 43, 81, 96, no. 36, illustrated (as The Lovers).
Literature
E. Cox, "The Planting of the Trees: The Story of Sceanba's Love," Delineator 86, April 1919, p. 14-15, illustrated.
D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, n.p., no. 257.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 1, London, 2008, p. 359, no. I.783, illustrated.