Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

The Oak (Study for The Sentry)

細節

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
The Oak (Study for The Sentry)
indistinctly signed and inscribed 'For Conway/from her Chadds Ford/friends, Betsy + Andy' (lower right)
watercolor on paperboard
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed in 1949.

來源

Ms. Eleanor Conway Sawyer, Massachusetts.
Gift from the above to private collection, circa 1975.
By descent to the present owner.

展覽

Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Something of the Artist, July 7, 1988-October 17, 1988.

拍品專文

The present work depicts the large oak tree at the London Grove Meeting House and is a study for the artist's tempera entitled The Sentry.

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