Project Description
Newell Convers Wyeth
Storybook, Ladies Home Journal Cover, (Nathaniel Wyeth as a Child, Reading), 1921
Oil on canvas
38 x 31 3/4 inches
Signed lower right (in book spine): NC WYETH
Provenance:
The artist, 1922
Boston City Club, December 11, 1922-January 8, 1923
Mr. Wilmont Roby Evans and Mrs. Susan Kramer Evans
By descent in the family to the present owner
Initial Use:
Ladies’ Home Journal, 36, No 3, (March 1922), Cover Illustration
Literature
Allen and Allen, Newell Convers Wyeth, 1972, page 262, Black and white illustration Page 136
Brandywine River Museum, N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonne, catalogue number I-893 (1287), p. 433, illustrated (published on line at www.ncwyeth.org)
Note:
Andrew Wyeth, confirmed that his brother Nathaniel was the model for this painting, a study of which remains in the Wyeth family. Later confirmed by Nicholas Wyeth grandson of Newell Convers Wyeth.
The first owners purchased the painting from the first formal showing of NC Wyeth’s work in Boston, at the time Wyeth was working on the mural at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston in 1922.
