Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)

Berry Picking

Details

Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917)
Berry Picking
signed and inscribed 'ROUGHSKETCH/ANDREW WYETH' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
12 x 9½ in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.

Provenance

The artist.
Celia Katz Mendelsohn, gift from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

In the 1920s Celia Katz Mendelsohn founded American Artists, a firm which promoted notable illustrators N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Al Parker and Jon Whitcomb, among others.

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

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