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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) Sir Nigel Sustains England's Honor in the Lists Up and down went the long, shining blades with flash of sparks at every parry. 1922 Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 1/4 in. (101.5 x 76.8 cm) Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection NCW NUMBER 55 TITLE Sir Nigel Sustains England's Honor in the Lists Up and down went the long, shining blades with flash of sparks at every parry. MEDIUM Oil on canvas INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S) Lower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined) SUBJECT illustration DATE 1922 PROVENANCE The artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; (Knoedler & Galleries, New York, NY, through at least 2/1966, no. CA4508); Collection of Mrs. Richard Ellis, 1974; (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, Dec. 10, 1981, lot no. 213); (American Illustrators Gallery, Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY, 1991); Collection of Robert and Carolyn Wohlsen, 1991-2001; (Schoonover Studios Ltd., Wilmington, DE, 2001); MBNA America, Wilmington, DE, 2001-2005 EXHIBITION HISTORY New York, NY, 1957, no. 109, misidentified as "Alleyne Fights on the Banks of the Garonne" but error corrected in Coe Kerr papers; Greenville, S. C., 1974, no. 81, b/w illus. p. 13; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1), b/w illus. on exhibition folder; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, "Visions of Sugar Plums," Nov. 23, 1984- Jan. 6, 1985; Chadds Ford, PA, 1985; Japan (3 venues), American Illustrators Gallery (organizer), "The Great American Illustrators," 1993, color illus. p. 33, no. 13 p. 125; Lititz, PA, 1995; Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, "The Wyeths, Trois generations d'artistes americains," Nov. 10, 2011- Feb. 12, 2012, illus. in color, p. 85 INITIAL USE Color illustration f. p. 230, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922) REFERENCES Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950," unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 55; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 204, color illus. p. 113; Kate F. Jennings. N. C. Wyeth (New York, NY: Brompton Books Corp., Crescent Books, 1992), color illus. p. 57; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.922, p. 443 CURATORIAL COMMENT "For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606. IMAGE SOURCE Transparency directly from painting PHOTO CREDIT Brandywine River Museum file photo