Sunflowers

Provenance

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York

Private collection, New York, acquired from above, 1983

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, November 29, 1990, lot 120

Private collection, Texas, acquired from above

Private collection, New York, New York

Exhibited

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, American Realism, March 15–April 15, 1983

Literature

Anne Classen Knutson, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2005), 81, note 68.

Note: This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

Anne Classen Knutson describes this watercolor as a sort of portrait, writing, “The round seed head of the largest flower, in the middle, resembles a face unabashedly staring at the viewer. The other flowers twist and turn as if tired and impatient with the whole idea of a family portrait. Their torn and tattered quality suggests that they are in various stages of decay—that they have reached their peak and are sliding into oblivion.”_[1]

_[1] Anne Classen Knutson, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2005), 81, note 68.