JAMIE WYETH | PIECE OF THE WRECK

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Pan, New York, 1978 (acquired from the above)

Simic Galleries, Beverly Hills, California

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986

Jamie Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980, p. 127, illustrated

Piece of the Wreck depicts a piece of D.T. Sheridan, a tug boat that sank in Lobster Cove, Mohegan Island, Maine in 1948. Decades later in the 1970s, a large storm moved the wreckage of the Sheridan further inland, where visitors to the cove can still see the ship's debris today.