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Artist Andrew Wyeth American, 1917–2009

Date1965

MediumTempera on panel

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 48 × 27 3/4 × 5/16 in. (121.9 × 70.5 × 0.8 cm)
height, width, and depth (Framed): 58 × 38 × 4 in. (147.3 × 96.5 × 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Ann and Jim Goodnight

Object number2024.23.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceThe artist, Chadds Ford, Penn.; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY]; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Laughlin, New York, NY, by 1968; [Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY]; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine, Greenwich, CT, 1976; Arthur & Holly Magill Collection, Greenville, SC, 1979; Saisson Group, Japan (Seibu Pisa, Ltd., Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo), 1990; [Sale, New York, NY, Sotheby’s, November 30, 2000, lot 97, illus. (color), cover]; Dr. & Mrs. James H. Goodnight, Cary, NC, 2000; given to North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024.
Published ReferencesAndrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Abercrombie & Fitch, 1966) 217, illus. (color) 103.

Alfred Frankenstein, “An Immense Wyeth Show (Philadelphia,)” This World, November 6, 1966, p. 25, illus. (b-w).

Peter Koper, “Baltimore Museum Featuring Wyeth,” Homewood (Baltimore), December 1966, p. 5.

“Art: Wyeth’s World,” Newsweek, vol. 69 (March 6, 1967), pp. 76-79, illus. p. 77.

C.N., “In the Museums: Andrew Wyeth (review),” Arts Magazine, vol. 41, no. 5 (March 1967), illus. (b-w), p. 54.

Edward Barry, “Simple! Wyeth Makes Us Happy,” Chicago Tribute, April 16, 1967, p. E2.

Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), 140, illus.

Eugene W. Leake, “Wyeth’s Sad World: The Work of Andrew Wyeth (book review),” Washington Post, Times Herald, October 24, 1968, p. A23.

Andrew Wyeth (exhibition catalogue) (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970) no. 148, 21, illus (b-w) 207.

Philip Isaacson, “Wyeth: An American Phenomenon,” Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, Maine), August 2, 1970, p. 5D.

John Canaday, “Travelogue: A Doubleheader Down East,” New York Times, August 1, 1971, illus. (b-w), p. D17.

Peter Cape, “Andrew Wyeth: Something More than a Superb Technician,” National Business Review (March 20, 1972), illus. (b-w), pp. 8, 13.

Wanda M. Corn, The Art of Andrew Wyeth (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 106, 158, illus. color 159.

Victoria Donohoe, “Wyeth Realism Featured by Metropolitan Museum,” Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Penn.), October 1976, p. 9H.

David Spengler, “Worlds of Wyeth: They’re Converging at the Met,” Record (Bergen County, NJ), October 1976, p. 1B.

Amei Wallach, “Exploring the World He Puts on Canvas,” [unknown newspaper], October 1976, pp. 1-2.

“Wyeth at the Met,” Acquire, vol. 4 (December 1976), p. 16, illus. (detail), p. 17.

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kueners and Olsons (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976) 108, 150-158, illus. (color) 151.

Alfred Werner, “Before the Squalor (The Native Landscapes as Viewed by American 19th and 20th Century Painters),” Art and Artists, vol. 11, no. 10 (February 1977), p. 12, illus.

Stephen Webbe, “House made famous by Andrew Wyeth is for sale,” Christian Science Monitor News Service, The Sun (Baltimore), August 27, 1978, p. D12.

Betsy James Wyeth, Christina's World (Boston: Houghton Mufflin, 1979).

Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1979) no. 24 illus. (color).

Grace Glueck, “Wyeth Art Going to Carolina Museum,” New York Times, March 20, 1979, p. C7.

John Canaday, “Andrew Wyeth: Rising Above the Scorn,” The Art Gallery (May 1979), pp. 102-15, 126.

“Wyeth collection,” Greenville News and Piedmont (Greenville, SC), September 2, 1979, p. 18E, illus. (b-w).
Stephen Allan Patrick, “From the Museums and Galleries: Art World is Taken by Surprise,” ARLIS/NA Newsletter, vol. 8 (February 1980), p. 49.

Betsy James Wyeth, Christina’s World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), illus. (detail), p. 177, illus. (color), p. 197.

Robert Merritt, “Museum shows Wyeth, 2-D paintings,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 21, 1982, p. K4.

Andrew Wyeth: A Trojan Horse Modernist (exhibition catalogue) (Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1984) illus. (color) 18.

“Greenville County Museum of Art,” Regency (January 1984), pp. 12-13.

Sue Lile Inman, “Building in Layers: The Magill Collection of Andrew Wyeth’s Art,” Southern Living Classics, vol. 1 (November/December 1985), pp. 90, 94-95, illus. (color), p. 91.

Maren Deicke, “Erin Bilderschatz in der alten Mühle wird zur Presse- und Preissensation (Profile of Leonard Andrews,” Art: Das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 11 (November 1986), p. 90, illus. (color), as Wetterseite.

“House in Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World of Sale in Maine,” Washington Post, August 10, 1989, p. C8.

Jo Ann Lewis, “Important Wyeth Collection Sold,” Washington Post, July 13, 1990, p. C2.

Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography (exhibtion catalogue) (Boston, MA: Bullfinch, 1995) illus. (color) 38.

Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1996), 112, 144, 377, illus. (b-w), 13.

Jhari Derr-Hill, “Shared Experience: Paintings by Andrew Wyeth,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2009), 10–11, illus. (color) 10.

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2014), cat. no. 6, illus. (color) 87, listed and illus. (color) 162.

Patricia Junker, Audrey Lewis, et al, Andrew Wyeth in Retrospect (exhibition catalogue) (Chadd’s Ford, PA, and Seattle, WA: Brandywine River Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2017), 172–173, illus. (color) 176, fig. 49 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

M. Shuji Takahashi, Andrew Wyeth Art Collection Book (Tokyo: Bijutsu Co., Ltd., 2017), illus. (color) 123.
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings," October 5–November 27, 1966; Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, December 13, 1966–January 22, 1967; New York: NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, February 14–April 2, 1967; Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, April 21–June 4, 1967.

Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, "The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting," October 27, 1967–January 7, 1968, no. 329.

Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Andrew Wyeth," July 17–September 6, 1970.

San Francisco, CA, The M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, "The Art of Andrew Wyeth," June 16–September 3, 1973.

Tokyo, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, "Works of Andrew Wyeth," April 6–May 19, 1974, no. 52; Kyoto, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, May 25–June 30, 1974.

New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons," October 16, 1976–February 6, 1977, no. 24.

Greenville, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art, "Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collections," September 1979, no. 24.

London, England, United Kingdom, Royal Academy of Arts, "Andrew Wyeth," June 6–August 31, 1980.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, "Collectors of the Year," February–March 1982.

Greenville, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art, "Andrew Wyeth: A Trojan Horse Modernist," March 9–April 15, 1984.

Leningrad, USSR, Academy of the Arts of the USSR, "An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art," March 11– April 12, 1987; Moscow, USSR, Academy of the Arts of the USSR, April 24–May 31, 1987; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, July 4–August 30, 1987; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, September 29–November 29, 1987; Chicago, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, December 13, 1987–February 14, 1988; Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, May 17–June 20, 1988, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, Fitzwilliam Museum, July 12–August 29, 1988; Chadds Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, September 17–November 22, 1988.

Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum, "Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography," February 3–April 2, 1995; Tokyo, Japan, Bunkamura Museum of Art, April 15–June 4, 1996; Fukushima-City, Japan, Fukashima Prefectural Museum of Art, June 6–July 16, 1995; Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, September 29–November 26, 1995.

Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, “Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic,” November 12, 2005–February 26, 2006; Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 26–July 16, 2006.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “In Pursuit of Strangeness: Wyeth and Westermann in Dialogue,” June 14–August 25, 2013.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In," May 4–November 30, 2014, cat. no. 6. Object Rights Statement

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