Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

The Clam Digger

Details

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
The Clam Digger
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' lower right
watercolor and pencil on paper
17 1/8 x 21½in. (43.5 x 54.6cm.)

Provenance

McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Private collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
By descent from the above to private collection, Stuart, Florida

Exhibited

New York, Macbeth Gallery, First Exhibition: Watrcolors by Andrew Wyeth, October-November 1937
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, McClees Galleries, Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, November 1938

Lot Essay

This watercolor depicts Walt Anderson and was executed in 1937 in Turkey Cove, Maine.

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