Jamie Wyeth b.1946

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1974 (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Loveland, Ohio, 1997 (by descent in the family)
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Pacific Sun Trading Company, New York, 2003
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jamie Wyeth, September-December 1980
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Jamie Wyeth, January-March 1981
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, Jamie Wyeth, April-June 1981
Elmira, New York, Arnot Art Museum, Three Generations of Wyeth, December 1985-February 1986
Nantucket, Massachusetts, Adelson Galleries on Nantucket, Jamie Wyeth: Paintings, August 2004
Naples, Florida, Naples Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth and Family, January-May 2006
Houston, Texas, Meredith Long & Company, Jamie Wyeth Paintings, October-November 2010, illustrated

Jamie Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980, p. 142, illustrated in color p. 101

The following condition report has been prepared by Julius Lowy Art Conservation: The artwork is a watercolor painted executed on paper with its tacking edges intact mounted to a wooden panel with an aqueous based adhesive. The bottom tacking edge bears the inscription: Man Reading, Monhegan Is. The mounting is the artist's original construction. The paper support, as well as the watercolor media layers, are in good and stable condition. Ultraviolet examination reveals a fluorescence of normal artist materials with no evidence of prior restoration present. Upon visual inspection, the artwork appears to be clean. The painting is signed at the lower right in pen: James Wyeth . The artwork is in excellent condition overall.
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This work depicts the Partridge House, built in 1909, on Monhegan Island in Maine.