Updated Mar. 6, 2013 at 6:19 a.m.
Philadelphia Museum of Art's Timothy Rub, left, and GlaxoSmithKline's Bob Carr shake hands after viewing the N.C. Wyeth painting "The Trial of the Bow" being hung at the museum, March 5, 2013, in Philadelphia. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline donated the painting to the museum. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia — The work by N.C. Wyeth was one of 16 illustrations made in 1929 for George Herbert Palmer's translation of Homer's "The Odyssey." Wyeth sold the series to a private collector in 1930, but the whereabouts of all but six are unknown.
GSK donates mysterious N.C. Wyeth painting to Philadelphia museum
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Philadelphia Museum of Art's Timothy Rub, left, and GlaxoSmithKline's Bob Carr shake hands after viewing the N.C. Wyeth painting "The Trial of the Bow" being hung at the museum, March 5, 2013, in Philadelphia. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline donated the painting to the museum. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia — The work by N.C. Wyeth was one of 16 illustrations made in 1929 for George Herbert Palmer's translation of Homer's "The Odyssey." Wyeth sold the series to a private collector in 1930, but the whereabouts of all but six are unknown.
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