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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2019 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 26 | $****** - ****** | "Oh, Morgan's men are out for you; and Blackbeard--buccaneer!..." |
paintings
127.6 x 88.9 cm (50.25 x 35 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
The artist.
Mr. R.R.M. Carpenter, Wilmington, Delaware, acquired from the above, 1917.
By descent to the late owner from the above.
Wilmington, Delaware, New Century Club, Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, November 5-8, 1917, n.p., no. 163 (as Blackbeard).
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Tradition, October 13-November 28, 1965, n.p., no. 71, (as Blackbeard, Buccaneer).
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum; New York, Cultural Center, N.C. Wyeth, May 20-December 31, 1972, n.p., no. 76 (as Blackbeard, Buccaneer).
Sotheby's, New York, Walker's Exhibits: Works of Art from the Private Collections of Alumnae Families of The Ethel Walker School, May 28-June 2, 1998 (as Blackbeard, Buccaneer).
Rockland, Maine, Farnswort Art Museum; Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Woundrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition, June 21, 1998-February 21, 1999, pp. 79, 165, no. 79, illustrated.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art; N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, June 22-September 15, 2019, p. 153, 210, no. 36, illustrated.
P.H. Fox, "The Golden Galleon," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 62, no. 2, August 1917, frontispiece illustration.
R.W. Clark, The Wreck of the Grosvenor, New York, n.d., dust-jacket and frontispiece illustration (as "They had shipped the mast in the longboat...").
O. G. Swan, Deep Water Days, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1929, o.p. 160, illustrated.
O. G. Swan, Anchors Aweigh!, New York, 1929, frontispiece illustration.
American History Illustrated, vol. II, no. 3, June 1968, color illustration.
D. Allen, D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, pp. 133, 277, illustrated.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 1, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 362, no. I.698, illustrated.
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 ¼ x 35 in. (127.6 x 88.9 cm.)
Painted in 1917.
