Lot 62
  • 62

Jamie Wyeth b.1946

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Jamie Wyeth
  • Lifeline
  • signed James Wyeth, l.r.
  • watercolor on paper
  • 24 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
  • (62.2 by 49.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1968.

Provenance

Private collection, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Private collection, Memphis, Tennessee
Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware
Acquired by the present owner from the above, late 1990s

Exhibited

Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Oils, Watercolors, Drawings by James Wyeth, July-September 1969
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Heritage, June-October 1971
Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks 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, no. 53

Literature

James A. Michener, The Quality of Life, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970, illustrated in color
Jamie Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980, illustrated in color

Condition

Very good condition. Unframed: hinged to the mat in two places along the upper edge, pinholes in corners, small areas of craquelure in thickest areas of pigment.
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