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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) "And will you stay on--after last night?" ca. 1915 Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 in. (86.3 x 63.4 cm) Collection of Brandywine River Museum Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996 NCW NUMBER 610 TITLE "And will you stay on--after last night?" MEDIUM Oil on canvas INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S) Upper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of canvas: 52745 (circled) SUBJECT illustration DATE ca. 1915 PROVENANCE The artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth EXHIBITION HISTORY Chadds Ford, PA, 1997, no numbers INITIAL USE B/w illustration f. p. 338, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, "Sea Green," Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. CXXXI, no. 783 (August 1915) REFERENCES Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 68; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 259; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.585, p. 312 CURATORIAL COMMENT As reproduced in Harper's, this painting was cropped along both sides and the top. The resulting image emphasized the figures and diminished the effect of the architecture. Windtryst, the Victorian estate in Chadds Ford that the Wyeths had rented for several summers, was destroyed by fire on September 11, 1914. Some months later N. C. Wyeth used the ruins as a setting for this illustration. IMAGE SOURCE Transparency directly from painting PHOTO CREDIT Rick Echelmeyer