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Wood Choppers
Details
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Wood Choppers
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down on paperboard
sheet, 21 ½ x 29 ½ in. (54.6 x 74.9 cm.);
overall, 24 x 31 ¾ in. (61 x 80.6 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
Wood Choppers
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down on paperboard
sheet, 21 ½ x 29 ½ in. (54.6 x 74.9 cm.);
overall, 24 x 31 ¾ in. (61 x 80.6 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
Provenance
Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida, 1947.
Private collection, Georgia, 1982.
Christie's, New York, 1 December 1989, lot 287, sold by the above.
Private collection, Japan, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Private collection, Georgia, 1982.
Christie's, New York, 1 December 1989, lot 287, sold by the above.
Private collection, Japan, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-Fifth Annual American Exhibition: Watercolors and Drawings, June 8-August 20, 1944, no. 380.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Forty-Third Annual Watercolor Exhibition and Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, October 20-November 25, 1945.
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Paintings by American Artists, 1947.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, April 8-20, 1947.
Marietta, Georgia, Marietta/Cobb Fine Arts Center, The Wyeths and other First Families in American Art, November 5-December 2, 1982, n.p., no. 15.
Marietta, Georgia, Marietta/Cobb Fine Arts Center; Waleska, Georgia, Reinhardt College, Hill Freeman Library; Kennesaw, Georgia, Kennesaw College Art Gallery; Thomasville, Georgia, Thomasville Cultural Center, American Landscapes: The Spirit of America—From Winslow Homer to Andrew Wyeth, September 4, 1986-March 31, 1987, n.p., no. 39.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Forty-Third Annual Watercolor Exhibition and Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, October 20-November 25, 1945.
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Paintings by American Artists, 1947.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, April 8-20, 1947.
Marietta, Georgia, Marietta/Cobb Fine Arts Center, The Wyeths and other First Families in American Art, November 5-December 2, 1982, n.p., no. 15.
Marietta, Georgia, Marietta/Cobb Fine Arts Center; Waleska, Georgia, Reinhardt College, Hill Freeman Library; Kennesaw, Georgia, Kennesaw College Art Gallery; Thomasville, Georgia, Thomasville Cultural Center, American Landscapes: The Spirit of America—From Winslow Homer to Andrew Wyeth, September 4, 1986-March 31, 1987, n.p., no. 39.
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.
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