AFA Autumn 2019

Antiques & Fine Art 87 2019 Fig. 13: N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945), The Lobsterman (The Doryman), 1944. Tempera on hardboard, 23¼ x 47¼ inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Amanda K. Berls (1975). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives at the Brandywine River Museum of Art (through September 15, 2019), was co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Abbreviated versions of the exhibition will travel to the Portland Museum of Art (October 4–January 12, 2020), and to the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio (February 8–May 3, 2020). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with contributions by D. B. Dowd, David M. Lubin, Kristine K. Ronan and Karen Zukowski (Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press). Christine B. Podmaniczky is the curator of N. C. Wyeth Collections & Historic Properties at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Jessica May is the deputy director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Chief Curator of the Portland Museum of Art . 1. N. C. Wyeth to Sidney Marsh Chase, March 16, 1908, in The Wyeths: The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901–1945, ed. Betsy James Wyeth (Chadds Ford, Pa.: Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2nd edition, 2008).