Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

A Hindu Mystic

Details

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
A Hindu Mystic
signed with artist's pseudonym 'Pearson Barnes' (lower right)
oil on canvas
48 x 34¼ in. (121.9 x 87 cm.)
Painted in 1912.

Provenance

Street and Smith Publications, New York, 1912.
Condé Nast Publications, Inc., New York, 1962.
James Graham & Sons, New York, 1964 (as Seated Arab).
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971.

Literature

D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals, New York, 1972, p. 269.

Exhibited

Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Newell Convers Wyeth, March 9-May 26, 1974, no. 76 (as Hindu Mystic).

Lot Essay

The present work was used as a cover illustration for the January 1913 edition of The Popular Magazine and is one of the only known works by the artist that is signed with a pseudonym.

This painting is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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