Andrew Wyeth

Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee 
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1976

Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth in Southern Collections, February-March 1978
Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brook Museum of Art; Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, Howard Pyle and the Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination, September 1983-April 1984, illustrated
Canton, Ohio, The Canton Art Institute, Andrew Wyeth: From Public and Private Collections, September-November 1985, illustrated
Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Southeastern Collections, January-April 1992, illustrated

This work is in very good condition. The sheet is hinged to the mat at the edges and corners. There is minor mat burn visible at the upper left corner and across the sky. There is some slight distortion to the sheet that is inherent to the artist's materials.
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The present work illustrates a field across from the Chadds Ford Inn, which can be seen in the background.