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N. C. WYETH | THE HUSKING BEE

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March 5, 07:57 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

N. C. WYETH

1882 - 1945

THE HUSKING BEE

signed N.C. WYETH (lower right); also titled "THE HUSKING BEE" and signed again (on the reverse)

oil on panel

33 ¼ by 25 inches

(84.5 by 63.5 cm)

Painted in 1941.

Woman's Day Magazine

William Serio

Private collection, California (by descent; sold: Christie's, New York, May 23, 2001, lot 89)

Private collection (acquired at the above sale; sold: Christie's, New York, December 5, 2013, lot 120)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Woman's Day, October 1946, cover illustration

Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 279

Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2008, no. I.1308, pp. 587-88, illustrated

The present work was originally conceived as a cover illustration for Progressive Farmer magazine but was never published.