Marooned

Details

NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (1882-1945)
Marooned
signed 'N.C. Wyeth' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 ¹/₄ in. (101.6 x 76.8 cm.)
Painted in 1918.

Provenance

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
Frank Reeser, 1926.
Private collection, 1956.
Frank E. Fowler, 1999.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

J. Verne, The Mysterious Island, New York, 1918, opp. 78, illustrated.
D. Allen, D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 222.
D. Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography, New York, 1998, p. 244.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, pp. 368-69, no. I.714, illustrated.

Exhibition

Fort Myers, Florida, Edison Community College, on extended loan, 1973-1980
Lakeland, Florida, Florida Southern College, on extended loan, circa 1980-1988.
Lakeland, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, on extended loan, 1988-1994.