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N.C. Wyeth
Going to Church
oil on canvas
108 by 144 in.
274.3 by 365.8 cm.
Executed in 1941.
Price upon request
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Details
108 by 144 in.
274.3 by 365.8 cm.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York
Exhibition
New York, Metropolitan Life Gallery; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas Gilcrease Institute; Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas Art Center; Albany, New York, New York State Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute & Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, N. C. Wyeth, The Met Life Murals, 1995-88, no. 7, illustrated n.p.
Literature
"The Days of the Pilgrims Live Again in Our Murals," The Home Office (publication of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.), vol. 23, no. 7, December 1941, pp. 8-9
N. C. Wyeth, Income Tax Notes for 1941 (unpublished, Brandywine River Museum of Art Library)
Gene Byrnes, A Complete Guide to Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning, and Painting, New York, 1948, p. 328, illustrated in a photograph of mural partially complete
Douglas Allen & Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, pp. 169-172
Robert San Souci, N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims, San Francisco, California, 1991, illustrated in color n.p.
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, London, 2008, no. M.73, illustrated in color p. 632