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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Lot 17
09.11.2023 18:30UTC -05:00
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ID 1064384
Lot 17 | ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Spring Fed

signed ‘Andrew Wyeth’ (lower right)

tempera on panel

27 ½ x 39 ½ in. (69.8 x 100.3 cm.)

Painted in 1967





Provenance

The artist.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.

Mr. William E. Weiss, New York (acquired from the above, 1967).

By descent from the above to the present owner.



Literature

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1968 (illustrated).

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1969 (illustrated).

W. Corn, The Art of Andrew Wyeth, Connecticut, 1973 (illustrated).

“Andrew Wyeth” in Mizue: A Monthly Review of the Fine Arts, July 1973 (illustrated).

R. Rathbone and T. Miki, “Andrew Wyeth: A Japanese Viewpoint” and “And American Artist in Japan” in American Art Review, May 1974, pp. 83-93 (illustrated).

T. Hoving, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth–A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth, Boston, 1976 (illustrated).

D. and J. Abse, Voices in the Gallery–Poems & Pictures Chosen by Dannie & Joan Abse, London, 1986 (illustrated).

"Ein Bilderschatz in der alten Muhle wird zue Presseund Preissensation" in Art - Das Kunstmagazin, November 1986, pp. 88-92 (illustrated).

A. Chase, "Wyeth Country” in Vogue, October 1987, p. 316 (illustrated).

J. Duff, T. Hoving and L. Kirstein, "An American Vision" in Express, June 1987, pp. 6-9 and 52-53 (illustrated).

E. Sozanski, "The Wyeth works that Soviets saw" in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 5 July 1987, p. i1 (illustrated).

L. Sweeney, "The art of the Wyeths–After touring the USSR, a three-generation exhibition is on view in the US before going on to Japan, Italy, and England" in Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 1987, p. 23 (illustrated).

"An American Vision–three generations of Wyeth art" in Dallas News, 4 October 1987 (illustrated)."Wyeth art Dynasty–Dallas Museum features three generations of painters" in Telegraph, 1 October 1987 (illustrated).

J. Duff, "An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art" in U.S.A. Today, 1 January 1988, pp. 36-47 (illustrated).

Contemporary Great Masters–Andrew Wyeth, Tokyo, 1993 (illustrated).

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth–A Secret Life, New York, 1996 (illustrated).

B. Kalisher, "The Kuerner Farm" in Chronos, April 2004, pp. 40-44 (illustrated).

J. Kay, "Wyeth's Inspiration Opens to Public" in The Ledger, 9 June 2004.

D.S. Greben, "Wyeth's World" in Art News, October 2005, pp. 148-151 (illustrated).

T. Medoff, "Home of Inspiration" in AAA World, May 2005, p. 19 (illustrated).

A. Lisante, "Wyeth Country" in Philadelphia Daily News, 28 March 2006 (illustrated).

V. and S. Friedman, "Canvasing the world of Wyeth" in The Mercury, 9 April 2006 (illustrated).

J. Woolridge, "Wyeth Country: Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley givers visitors an intimate glimpse of artist's world" in The Miami Herald, 14 May 2006 (illustrated).

K. Heller, "It feels good to say: She was wrong about Wyeth" in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 11June 2006, p. M3.

R. Rice, "Grim Fairy Tales: The Andrew Wyeth show is a matter of life, but more subtly, death" in Citypaper Philadelphia, 27 April 2006.

O. Nerdrum, Kitsch–Mer Enn Kunst, Oslo, 2009 (illustrated).

Nerdrum, Odd, Kitsch–More Than Art, Oslo, 2011 (illustrated).

P. Eliasoph, R. Jackson, Paintings, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2012 (illustrated).

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait, Washington, D.C., 2013 (illustrated).

G. Fabrikant, "In a Patch of Pennsylvania, Three Faces of Wyeth" in The New York Times, 26 May 2013, p. TR8.

A. Guglielmetti, "Le temps dans la peinture d'Andrew Wyeth" in Mirabilia, September 2014, pp. 88-109 (illustrated).

J. Balestrieri, "Painting Windows and A Family Affair" in American Fine Art, May 2014, pp. 48-55 (illustrated).

S. Doherty, "New Exhibition Highlights Wyeth's New Windows" in Plein Air, August 2014, pp. 30-32 (illustrated).

"Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In" in American Art Review, October 2014, pp. 122-125 (illustrated).

National Gallery of Art, Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 2014 (illustrated on the cover).

S. Takahashi, Bulletin of the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2014 (illustrated).

F. Sellers, "In Chadds Ford, Pa., they still tell stories about Andrew Wyeth, but plenty of mysteries remain" in The Washington Post, 24 April 2014 (illustrated).

C. Elvidge, "The Report: Mr. Andrew Wyeth" in Mr. Porter, 22 April 2014 (illustrated).

L. Mallonee, "Finding Refuge in Wyeth's Windows" in Hyperallergic.com, 12 November 2014 (illustrated).

K. Baumgartner, Andrew Wyeth: People and Places, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 2017 (illustrated).

S. Takahashi, Andrew Wyeth, Tokyo, 2017 (illustrated).

B. Sokol, "A Dynasty of Light" in American Way, July 2017, pp. 52-60 (illustrated).

T. Hine, "Wyeth's World" in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 June 2017, H1, H7 (illustrated).

R. Colvin, "Retrospective of Andrew Wyeth, a Painter Both Loved and Loathed" in Hyperallergic.com, 5 December 2017 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, July-September 1970 (illustrated).

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth, April-June 1974 (illustrated).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, October 1976-February 1977.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Andrew Wyeth, June-August 1980 (illustrated).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art; Leningrad, Academy of the Arts of USSR; Moscow, Academy of the Arts of the USSR; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art; Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum; Milan, Palazzo Reale; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, March 1987-November 1988 (illustrated).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, The Kuerner Farm, April-October 2004.

Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic, November 2005-July 2006 (illustrated).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, A Painter's View: Andrew Wyeth's Studio, March-November 2012.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In, May-November 2014 (illustrated).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art and Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, June 2017-January 2018 (illustrated).

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, 1988-2023 (on extended loan).



Further Details

The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
Artist:Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009)
Applied technique:Painted, Tempera
Art style:Realism
Genre:Genre art
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