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NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (American, 1882-1945) This is What Tobey Was Doin! He Was Catchin' Butterflies, magazine story illustration, circa 1919-20 Oil on canvas 30-1/4 x 38-3/4 inches (76.8 x 98.4 cm) Signed lower left: N.C. Wyeth Inscribed (and marked out) verso: May Everybody's / "All the Brothers" II PROVENANCE: The artist; Mrs. N.C. Wyeth, the artist's wife; John Wyeth, by descent, 1960s; Sale: Illustration House, New York, November 2, 1991, lot 115; Acquired by the present owner from the above. LITERATURE: R. Sidney, "Butterflies," Pictorial Review 21, no. 12, September 1920, illustrated; C.B. Podmaniczky, N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 415, no. I.844 (762), illustrated. According to Christine B. Podmaniczky, "The inscription on the reverse suggests that the artist reused this canvas and that the image below is either I.787 or I.788, both illustrations for the May 1919 installment of Ben Ames Williams's, "All the Brothers Were Valiant" in Everybody's Magazine" (N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. I, London, 2008, p. 415).