- 137
Andrew Wyeth b. 1917
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Andrew Wyeth
- Chimney Swift
- signed Andrew Wyeth, l.l.
- watercolor on paper
- 30 by 22 in.
- (76.2 by 55.9 cm)
- Executed in 1947.
Provenance
Collection of Clarence Dillon
Bequeathed to the present owner (his daughter), 1962
Exhibited
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, July-August 1951
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Andrew Wyeth, October-November 1953
Islesboro, Maine, Islesboro Towne Hall, Dry Brush and Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, July-August 1962
Newark, New Jersey, Newark Museum of Art, Art from New Jersey Homes, October-November 1964
Newark, New Jersey, 4th Annual Holiday Art Exhibition--1969--Andrew Wyeth, November-December 1969
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Andrew Wyeth, October-November 1953
Islesboro, Maine, Islesboro Towne Hall, Dry Brush and Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, July-August 1962
Newark, New Jersey, Newark Museum of Art, Art from New Jersey Homes, October-November 1964
Newark, New Jersey, 4th Annual Holiday Art Exhibition--1969--Andrew Wyeth, November-December 1969
Literature
Anne Classen Knutson, et al, Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005, p. 57, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
In Memory & Magic, Anne Classen Knutson writes: "In Chimney Swift, a dead bird lies on the sill of a closed window, a symbol of escape entombed within an airless room. Such formal tensions regularly appear in the artist's work and may express personal conflicts, as he sometimes rebelled against the domineering wills of both his father and his wife. Wyeth also explores the divide between freedom and life and containment and death through the motifs of thresholds and vessels. Later in his life, Wyeth admits the world of technology into his painted universe with an entirely different type of bird--an airplane" (Atlanta, Georgia, 2005, p. 57).