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Property from the Cardigan Mountain School, Sold to Benefit the Jennie Drew Hinman Memorial Endowment

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Snow Shoe

Details

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Snow Shoe
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
19 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (48.9 x 69.2 cm.)
Executed in 1960.

Provenance

Mrs. John H. Hinman, Pelham, New York, by 1966.
Private collection, New Hampshire.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1981.

Literature

R. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968, illustrated.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Andrew Wyeth, October 8, 1966-June 4, 1967, pp. 74, 111, no. 146.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The present work likely depicts a forest interior near the studio of the artist's father, N.C. Wyeth, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

The proceeds from the sale of this lot will be added to the "Jennie Drew Hinman Memorial Endowment" for the Cardigan Mountain School, Canaan, New Hampshire. Established in 1956, income from the Jennie Drew Hinman Memorial Endowment Fund provides support for financial aid that helps deserving families afford the cost of a Cardigan Mountain School education.

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