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Andrew Wyeth b. 1917
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Andrew Wyeth
- From Big Thunder
signed Andrew Wyeth and inscribed To Miss Field, l.r.
- watercolor on paper
- 18 by 22 in.
- (45.7 by 55.9 cm)
- Executed in 1938.
Provenance
Mary Field, Weston, Massachusetts and Port Clyde, Maine, circa 1938 (gift from the artist)
By descent in the family to the present owner (her great nephew)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1972-1981 (on loan)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery; Calgary, Alberta, Glenboro-Alberta Institute; St. Catherines, Ontario, Rodman Hall, Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper, September 1978-February 1979
Catalogue Note
According to Mary Landa, this watercolor depicts a swimming ledge near the Wyeth family home in Port Clyde, Maine. Hupper Island is in the distance. The watercolor was dedicated to Miss Field, a neighbor who spent her summers at 'Big Thunder' and swam in the ledge depicted in this work.