Private Collection, Metairie, Louisiana, 1964
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Frits Markus, New York (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, May 25, 2006, lot 136, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner, circa 2006

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, The Wonder of Andrew Wyeth - Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings - 1939 to 1966, December 1967, no. 6, p. 13, illustrated (as Clothes Poles)

Good condition. Laid down on board. Mat burn along extreme edges.
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As one of America’s most iconic realist painters, Andrew Wyeth often found his greatest inspiration in the landscape and dwellings of Brinton’s Mill, his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The present depiction of his neighbor Alexander Chandler's house reveals Wyeth’s interest in winter scenes, and the aesthetic particularities the change in seasons wrought on the scenery: “There are always new emotions in going back to something that I know very well,” he stated. “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it—the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it—the whole story doesn’t show” (quoted in J. Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, New York, 198, p. 182).