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拍品專文
The present work depicts Andrew Wyeth's home on Southern Island in Tenants Harbor, Maine. In the 1920s his father, the celebrated illustrator N.C. Wyeth, purchased a home in Port Clyde, Maine, and not long after, Andrew spent every summer there and became captivated by the place. In 1978, he purchased the lighthouse seen here, which is known as both Tenants Harbor Light and Southern Island Light. Built in 1857, the structure marks the southwestern entrance to Penobscot Bay and has been featured prominently in paintings by both Andrew and his son Jamie, who now owns the lighthouse and maintains a studio within.
Here, Wyeth captures the building from a unique perspective, cropping the scene to show the turret of the lighthouse primarily through its dramatic shadow against the white clapboard siding. As a result, the work epitomizes the sense of ambiguity within his most striking work. "Although celebrated as a great American realist, Andrew Wyeth has generally offered mystery rather than certainty in his art. The power of the unseen at work in nature and in human life gives his art its power and unique presence...Clearly, like his father, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew has sought and found certain strategies to communicate with a broad, now international audience. That audience has the opportunity to go deep into his art, to find the elusive spirit that has animated these exquisite panels from the outset of the artist's adventure" (S.C. Larsen, Wondrous Strange, New York, 1998, p. 18).
Here, Wyeth captures the building from a unique perspective, cropping the scene to show the turret of the lighthouse primarily through its dramatic shadow against the white clapboard siding. As a result, the work epitomizes the sense of ambiguity within his most striking work. "Although celebrated as a great American realist, Andrew Wyeth has generally offered mystery rather than certainty in his art. The power of the unseen at work in nature and in human life gives his art its power and unique presence...Clearly, like his father, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew has sought and found certain strategies to communicate with a broad, now international audience. That audience has the opportunity to go deep into his art, to find the elusive spirit that has animated these exquisite panels from the outset of the artist's adventure" (S.C. Larsen, Wondrous Strange, New York, 1998, p. 18).