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Property from a Private Collection

Andrew Wyeth

East Waldoboro

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Andrew Wyeth

(1917 - 2009)

East Waldoboro


signed Andrew Wyeth (lower left)

tempera on panel

25 by 47 ¾ in.   63.5 by 121 cm.

Executed in 1945.


The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.

Elizabeth Murton du Pont Carpenter, Wilmington (acquired directly from the artist in 1945)

Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 2006)

Acquired by descent from the above in 2020 by the present owner

New York, Macbeth Gallery, Temperas and Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, 1945, no. 4

Philadelphia, Woodmere Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by an Invited Group of Philadelphia Artists, 1947

Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art and Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, 1951

Wilmington, Delaware Art Center, Andrew Wyeth, 1957

Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Andrew WyethAn Exhibition of Watercolors, Temperas and Drawings, 1963, no. 12

Chester, Pennsylvania Military College, Pennsylvania Military College Commencement Exhibition, 1964

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Heritage Gallery, 1981

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Andrew Wyeth Gallery: Summer 2009, 2009

"Artist Paints a Ghostly House: Wyeth Finds a Deserted Home and Records its Silent Moods," LIFE Magazine, 27 July 1953, pp. 80-81, illustrated in color

Malcolm Terence, ed., "Wyeth Canvases Come To Tucson," Arizona Alumnus, 1 January 1963, p. 7

Exh. Cat., Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society Ltd., The Art of Andrew Wyeth, 1973, p. 101, illustrated in color

Edward Sozanski, "New Character and Mood in Wyeth Show," Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 July 2009

Matt Freeman, "Rarely Seen Andrew Wyeth Paintings Now on View at Brandywine River Museum," Examiner, 6 July 2009 (online)