Provisions in Sight!
Date1903
Artist
Denman Fink
(American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1880–1956)
Formerly attributed to
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Prologue of the American Revolution" by Justin H. Smith. In Century Magazine, Feb. 1903.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
frame: 25 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (64.8 x 47.6 cm)
frame: 25 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (64.8 x 47.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1919
Object number1919-32
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextDespite the signature, this illustration was painted by illustrator Denman Fink. By 1916--only five years after Howard Pyle's death--the Pyle signature had been painted over Fink's, and the painting was offered for sale as a work by Pyle. Pyle was a much more famous artist than Fink and was particularly renowned for his American history subjects. The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (which would become the Delaware Art Museum) bought this in 1919, and figured out that it was not by Pyle in 1920, while preparing a comprehensive catalogue of Pyle's published work.
