Front Door

Details

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Front Door
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
29 ½ x 21 ½ in. (74.9 x 54.6 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Helen and Donald Parson Jr., Boston, Massachusetts, 1948.
By descent to the late owner.

Literature

B.J. Wyeth, Christina's World, Boston, Massachusetts, 1982, p. 199, illustrated.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, November 18-December 7, 1946, n.p, no. 14.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, American Painting of Today, March 21-April 13, 1946, n.p., no. 63.
Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, January 1, 1947.
New York, American Watercolor Society, February 1, 1947.
New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Works by Newly Elected Members and By Recipients of Academy and Institute Honors, May 22-June 30, 1947.
Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: Something of the Artist, July 7-October 17, 1988.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: American Master, January 26-April 17, 2005.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, on extended loan, 2005-2017.

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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Lot Essay

The present work depicts the porch of the Olson Family home on Hathorn Point in Cushing, Maine. The Olson's daughter, Christina, is the subject of Wyeth's masterwork Christina's World (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

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