Cut Granite

Details

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
Cut Granite
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (upper left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down onto stretched paper
28 x 19 1/8 in. (71.1 x 48.6 cm.)

Provenance

Robert H. Smith, Bethesda, Marlyand, by 1966.

Literature

"Everson Has the Big Ones," Empire, The Syracuse Herald-American Magazine, December 1965, pp. 8-9

Exhibited

Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art, American Painting from 1830, December 1965-January 1966
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966, October-November 1966, no. 215, p. 102 (This exhibition also traveled to: Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago)

Lot Essay

The present work, painted in 1965, depicts the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine.

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

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