Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from a Private Collection, Colorado
Rum Runner (To the Westward)
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Colorado
Andrew Wyeth
1917 - 2009
Rum Runner (To the Westward)
signed Andrew Wyeth (lower right)
tempera on panel
25 by 48 in.
63.5 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1944 and reworked in 1974.
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webster, Medfield, Massachusetts (acquired in 1944)
Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston
Private Collection
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York (acquired in 1974)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine, Greenwich
Frank Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Arthur and Holly Magill, Greenville, South Carolina
Gallet Co., Ltd., Tokyo (acquired in 1990)
Christie's, New York, 25 May 2000, lot 160
MBNA Corporation, Wilmington
James Graham & Sons, New York
Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner
Art News, vol. 72, issue 5, May 1973, p. 13, illustrated in color (titled To the Westward)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XXXIV, issue 2, New York, Autumn 1976, no. 99, p. 112, illustrated
Grace Glueck, "Wyeth Art Going to Carolina Museum," The New York Times, 20 March 1979, p. C-7, illustrated (as a detail)
"Works by Andrew Wyeth: The Arthur and Holly Magill Collection," The Greenville News, 9 September 1979, p. 15-E, illustrated (as a detail)
William Schemmel, "Wyeths of Greenville," Pace, July 1980, pp. 44-46, illustrated in color
"Greenville Captures Wyeth's New England," Southern Living, February 1980, pp. 31-32, illustrated
Jo Ann Lewis, "Important Wyeth Collection Sold," The Washington Post, 12 July 1990, n.p.
Cooper Edens, Glorious American Songbook, San Francisco, 2005, pp. 46-47 and p. 77, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Mito, Japan, Marunuma Art Park, Andrew Wyeth: Watercolors and Drawings, 2006, fig. 6, p. 15, illustrated
Shuji Takahashi, Andrew Wyeth, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 136-37, illustrated in color
Waterville, Maine, Colby College, Watercolors and Temperas by Andrew Wyeth, 1944, no. 18 (titled To the West'ard)
Boston, Doll & Richards, Inc., Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, 1944, no. 120
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Exhibition of Paintings by Andrew Wyeth, 1953, no. 1 (titled To the Westward)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1962 (on loan)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, 1976-77, no. 99, p. 197, illustrated in color
South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection, 1979, no. 17, pp. 50-51 and p. 80, illustrated in color
Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Fukushima-City, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography, 1995, p. 99, illustrated in color
Wilmington, MBNA Headquarters, MBNA Wyeth Collection, 1999 - 2000
Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Teel Island, 2000
New York, James Graham & Sons, A Century and a Half in the Art Business, 2007, no. 64, p. 64, illustrated in color
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reimagining Modernism, 2015-16 (on loan)
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