Lot 109
  • 109

Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Spring Evening
  • signed Andrew Wyeth, u.r.
  • drybrush and watercolor on paper laid on board
  • 23 by 29 in.
  • (58.4 by 73.7 cm)
  • Painted in 1948.

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Topsham, Maine
Private Collection, Dallas, Texas
Seibu Pisa Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, One Hundred Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition, November-December 1949
New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Work of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors, May-June 1950
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Forty-eighth Annual Water Color and Print Exhibition, October-November 1950
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, July-August 1951
Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, August-September 1951
Ogunquit, Maine, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Second Annual Exhibition-Americans of Our Times, 1954
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, DeYoung Memorial Museum; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth, January-September 1956
Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Center, Andrew Wyeth, January-February 1957
Islesboro, Maine, Islesboro Towne Hall, Dry Brush and Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, July-August 1962
Wiscasset, Maine, Maine Art Gallery, Painting and Sculpture by Maine Artists, 1963, July-September 1963
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of Art; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Andrew Wyeth-Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938-1966, October 1966-June 1967, no. 33, p. 32
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Contemporary and Modern Paintings, January-February 1984
Tokyo, Japan, Seibu Pisa, Ltd., Andrew Wyeth Exhibition, 1988, no. 15, illustrated in color
Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends, February-May 2001, p. 39, illustrated in color

Literature

"The Arts and Letters Elected and Selected," Art Digest, June 1950, p. 13
"Andrew Wyeth, 'N.C.'", American Heritage, May 1987, pp. 106-15, illustrated in color
Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art, New York, 1999, illustrated
Andrew and Betsy James Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends, Seattle, Washington, 2001, p. 39, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

This watercolor depicts Evelyn Smith posing in the frame house next to Mother Archies Church in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.