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Title:The Lobsterman (The Doryman)
Artist:N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882–1945)
Date:1944
Medium:Egg tempera on wood
Dimensions:23 1/4 × 47 1/4 in. (59.1 × 120 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Amanda K. Berls, 1975
Object Number:1975.322
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): N.C. WYETH / 1944; signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): “IN PENOBSCOT BAY” / by N.C. WYETH 1944 / PAINTED IN EGG TEMPERA / VARNISHED / WITH DAMAR
the artist (1944–45; sold in 1945, for $3,000, to McCann); Thomas Harrison McCann, Greenport, Long Island (1945–d. 1962; unknown sale, 1963); [Old Print Shop, New York in half-shares with Knoedler & Company, New York, 1963–66; Knoedler stock no. A 8533; sold on January 3, 1966 to Berls]; Amanda K. Berls, New York (1966–75; her gift to MMA)
New York. National Academy of Design. "119th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Design," March 14–April 3, 1945, no. 124 (as "In Penobscot Bay").
Brunswick, Me. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. "Commencement Day exhibition," June 1945, no catalogue.
Harrisburg, Penn. William Penn Memorial Museum. "N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Tradition," October 13–November 28, 1965, no. 111 (as "In Penobscot Bay").
Rockland, Me. William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum. "An Exhibition of Paintings from the World of N.C. Wyeth," July 20–September 4, 1966, no. 78 (as "In Penobscot Bay," lent by Miss Amanda K. Berls).
New York. Coe Kerr Gallery. "A Tribute to American Realism: The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion," January 7–31, 1976, unnumbered cat. (as "The Doryman").
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion," January 12–March 9, 1980, no. 75 (as "The Doryman").
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Not for Publication: Landscapes, Still Lifes, and Portraits by N. C. Wyeth," June 5–September 10, 1982, no. 12 (as "The Doryman," 1942).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
Portland, Me. Portland Museum of Art. "N. C. Wyeth: Precious Time," June 22–October 15, 2000, unnumbered cat. (p. 60).
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Summers in Maine: Paintings by N. C. Wyeth," May 31–September 1, 2003, no catalogue.
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum of Art. "N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," June 23–September 15, 2019, unnumbered cat. (pp. 196–97).
Portland, Me. Portland Museum of Art. "N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," October 24, 2019–January 12, 2020, unnumbered cat.
Cincinnati. Taft Museum of Art. "N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives," February 8–May 3, 2020 (closed in March 2020), unnumbered cat.
Ernest W. Watson. "N.C. Wyeth: Giant on a Hilltop." American Artist 9 (March 1945), ill. p. 22, calls it "Caldwells Island".
Henry C. Pitz. "N.C. Wyeth." American Heritage Magazine 16 (October 1965), p. 51, ill. (color).
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen Jr. N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals. New York, 1972, p. 191, ill. p. 187.
Philip C. Beam. Personal Recollections of the Museum of Art and the Department of Art at Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Me., 1991, pp. 36–37, calls it "The Doryman".
Christine B. Podmaniczky. N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. London, 2008, vol. 2, pp. 779–80, no. L225, ill. (color), calls it "In Penobscot Bay".
Joyce Hill Stoner in Christine B. Podmaniczky. N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. London, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 82–83.
Peter Ker. "The Complicated Legacy of N.C. Wyeth." PMA Magazine (Fall 2019), ill. p. 23.
James Gardner. "Escape Artist." Magazine Antiques 186 (July/August 2019), p. 111, fig. 1 (color).
Brandywine River Museum of Art. N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [collections.brandywine.org/ncwcr], 2021 (accessed), Research no. NCW: 331, call it "In Penobscot Bay".
Norman Lewis (American, New York 1909–1979 New York)
1978
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