Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

The Milk Room

Details

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
The Milk Room
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' lower left
watercolor on paper
30 x 22in. (76.2 x 55.8cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Lee C. Schlesinger, Metarie, Louisiana
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

B. Wyeth, Wyeth at Kuerners, Boston, Massachusetts, 1976, p. 221

Exhibited

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Pyles Meadow, Andy Wyeth Day--Paintings by Andrew Wyeth, May 1964
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings: 1938 into 1966, October-November 1966, no. 204, p. 98 (This exhibition also traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, December 1966-January 1967; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, February-April 1967; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, April-June 1967)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Olsons and Kuerners, October 1976-February 1977

Lot Essay

The Milk Room was executed in 1964 and depicts the interior of Karl Kuerner's barn, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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