NEWELL CONVERS WYETH
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NEWELL CONVERS WYETH(american 1882-1945)"AND THERE, QUITE CLOSE TO HIM WAS ELIZABETH AMONG HER LADIES, IN A DRESSING GOWN, UNPAINTED, WITHOUT HER WIG, HER GREY HAIR HANGING IN WISPS ABOUT HER FACE, AND HER EYES STARTING FROM HER HEAD."Signed 'N.C. WYETH' upper right, oil on canvas, unframed30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6cm)Executed 1928provenance:Titus C. Geesey, Wilmington, Delaware, to 1964.From the Collection of The Wilmington Institute Library, Wilmington, Delaware.exhibited:(possibly) The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts annual exhibition 1929, catalogue number 15 as 'Elizabeth Queen of England'. (Records are unclear whether the painting exhibited is the present work or another image of Elizabeth from the same story).literature:Newell Convers Wyeth to James Boyd, Jan 5. 1928, Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina.Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals(New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 263.Christine Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I. 1079 (1822), p. 508.note:This work was painted as a color illustration for 'Elizabeth and Essex' by Lytton Strachey, Ladies' Home Journal vol. XLV, no. 11 (Nov. 1928) p. 17.This painting is NCW number 1822 in the catalogue raisonné of the works of
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