Lot 59
- 59
Andrew Wyeth b. 1917
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Andrew Wyeth
- From Big Thunder
signed Andrew Wyeth and inscribed To Miss Field, l.r.
- watercolor on paper
- 18 by 22 in.
- (45.7 by 55.9 cm)
- Executed in 1938.
Provenance
Mary Field, Weston, Massachusetts and Port Clyde, Maine, circa 1938 (gift from the artist)
By descent in the family to the p🧔resent owner (her great nephew)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1972-1981 (on loan)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery; Calgary, Alberta, Glenboro-Alberta Institute; St. Catherines, Ontario, Rodman Hall, Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper, September 1978-February 1979
Catalogue Note
According to Mary Landa, this watercolor depicts a swimming ledge near the Wyeth family home in Port Clyde, Maine. Hupper Island is in the distance. The watercolor was dedicated to Miss Field, a neighbor who spent her summers at 'Big Thunder' and swam in the ledge depicted in this work.