Property from the Collection of HARRIET AND MORTIMER SPILLER, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

Spring Sun (Morning Sun)

Details
Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
Spring Sun (Morning Sun)
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' lower left
drybrush on paper
13½ x 21¼in. (34.3 x 54cm.) (sight)
Provenance
Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1965
Literature
Art in America, "20th Century Painting," Fall 1962, vol. 50, no. 3 L. Goodrich, "The Four Seasons," Art in America, 1962, p. 33, illus.
Art in America, "Andrew Wyeth--An Unsentimental Reappraisal," January/February 1967, p. 27, illus.
Downeast, "Christina," June 1967, vol. 13, no. 9
Exhibited
Buffalo, New York, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Water Colors and Drawings, November-December, 1962, no. 129, p. 15
Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth, March-April 1963
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, January-March, 1963
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, 1970, no. 47, p. 94, illus.
San Francisco, California, The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of the Fine Arts, Museums of San Francisco, June-September, 1973, p. 52, no. 35, illus.

Lot Essay

This work was executed in 1959 and depicts Tom Clark in his kitchen in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

This painting will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.