NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (American, 1882-1945) 'And Looked Out Beyond the Tumbled Shore Ice to the S...

NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (American, 1882-1945) 'And Looked Out Beyond the Tumbled Shore Ice to the Steel-Gray Angry Waters' signed with initials and dated 'NCW / 08' (center right) oil on canvas 25 x 25 in (63.5 x 63.5 cm) framed 34 1/4 x 34 1/4 x 2 in (87.0 x 87.0 x 5.0 cm) Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, New York, circa 1945. Private collection, Indianapolis, Indiana, gift from the above, circa 1952. By descent to the present owner. Literature Stewart Edward White, 'The Partners,' The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 180, no. 34 (February 22, 1908), p. 13, illustrated. Stewart Edward White, The Riverman (New York: The McClure Company, 1908), opp. 192, illustrated. Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown, 1972), p. 272. Christine B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 1 (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, London: Scala, 2008), p. 182, no. I.229, illustrated. N.B. N.C. Wyeth painted 'And Looked Out Beyond...' as an illustration for Stewart Edward White's 1908 novel, The Riverman. A selection of these illustrations, including Wyeth's, ran in the February 22, 1908, issue of The Saturday Evening Post as 'The Partners'. The Riverman is set in the dangerous world of a Michigan logging camp and tells a story of two young lovers, one a New Yorker and one a logger. Wyeth's painting depicts the now-married couple, John and Carroll Orde, as they brave a sleigh ride through the harsh, snow-covered Michigan landscape. The image illustrates the following passage in Chapter XXI of the novel: 'The winter was severe. All the world was white. The piles of snow along the sidewalks grew until Carroll could hardly look over them. Great fierce winds swept in from the lake. Sometimes Orde and his wife drove two miles to the top of the sand hills, where first they had met in this their present home, and looked out beyond the tumbled shore ice to the steel-gray, angry waters. The wind pricked their faces, and, going home, the sleigh-bells jingled, the snowballs from the horses' hoofs hit against the dash, the cold air seared the inside of their nostrils. When Orde helped Carroll from beneath the warm buffalo robes, she held up to him a face glowing with colour, framed in the soft fluffy fur of a hood' (White, p. 192). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing