Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Sea Monster

Details

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Sea Monster
signed with initial 'W' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16¾ x 27 in. (42.5 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1922.

Provenance

Dr. John Oliver La Gorce (President and Editor, National Geographic Society 1954-1957) by mid-1930s.
Gifted to the National Geographic Society by Dr. La Gorce's widow, Ethel Bloedorn, 1963.

Literature

"An Invitation to Explore," souvenir publication of National Geographic Society, circa 1933, p.8.
G. Grosvenor, "The National Geographic Society and Its Magazine," National Geographic 69, January 1936, p. 156.
"1963- La Gorce Bequest of N.C. Wyeth Paintings," National Geographic Timeline, 1963.
D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 290.
The Art of National Geographic: A Century of Illustration, the National Geographic Society, 1999, pp. 14, 235.
C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, London, 2008, p. 656, no. C.55, illustrated.

Exhibited

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, The Norman Rockwell Museum, National Geographic: The Art of Exploration, 2006.

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Lot Essay

This image was used as the cover illustration for the 1923 calendar for the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. It relates to four panoramic murals painted by Wyeth in 1915 for the walls of the submarine grill at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City. Wyeth and La Gorce shared a love of pirate lore, and through this shared interest, La Gorce acquired this painting.

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