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Newell Convers Wyeth
(1882-1945)
"I Thank Him for the Knowledge That - I Shall Not Tell!... And, Perhaps,... I Shall Not Wholly Die....Perhaps" 28 1/4 x 42in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

US$80,000 - US$120,000

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

"I Thank Him for the Knowledge That - I Shall Not Tell!... And, Perhaps,... I Shall Not Wholly Die....Perhaps"
signed and dated 'NC Wyeth / 10' (upper right)
oil en grisaille on canvas
28 1/4 x 42in

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1969.
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware.
Private collection, Rhode Island.
Sale, Heritage Auctions, New York, October 26, 2013, lot 78171.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center, September 1999.

Literature
E.M. Rhodes, "The Line of Least Resistance," The Saturday Evening Post 183, no. 10, September 3, 1910, p. 23, illustrated.
D. Allen and D. Allen Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 273.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 214, no. I.315, illustrated.

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