Walking in Her Cape Coat

Provenance

The artist

Leonard E.B. Andrews, Malvern, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, 1986

Private collection, Japan, acquired from above, 1989

Pacific Sun Trading Company, Wellesley, Massachusetts, acquired from above, 2005

Private collection, 2006

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 16, 2024, lot 223, from above

Exhibited

Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 24, 1987–September 27, 1987; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, October 28, 1987–January 3, 1988; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January 31, 1988–April 10, 1988; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, April 28, 1988–July 10, 1988; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, August 13, 1988–October 16, 1988; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, November 13, 1988–January 22, 1989

The Helga Pictures: Then and Now, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, September 24–November 22, 1992; Portland Museum of Art, Maine, July 1–October 17, 1993

Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 13–March 24, 1996; The San Diego Museum of Art, California, June 29–September 2, 1996; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, October 6, 1996–January 31, 1997; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, April 25–June 29, 1997

The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Wyeth: Three Generations, June 2–August 16, 1998 (as Study for Walking in Her Cape Coat)

Andrew Wyeth’s Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2002–August 4, 2002; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2, 2002–January 5, 2003

Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 21–July 21, 2004; The Canton Museum of Art, Ohio, August 8–September 19, 2004; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 16, 2004–January 9, 2005

Naples Museum of Art, Florida, Andrew Wyeth & Family: N.C., Andrew & Jamie, January 21–May 14, 2006

Literature

John Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987), 142, 198, no. 169.

Wyeth: Three Generations (Louisville: Speed Art Museum, 1998), 12, no. 56 (as Study for Walking in Her Cape Coat).

Andrew Wyeth’s Helga Pictures (Washington, DC: International Arts & Artists, 2004), 72, 97, no. 51.

Note: The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.

Leonard E.B. Andrews was an American publisher who assembled an extensive collection of Andrew Wyeth’s works depicting German model Helga Testorf who was a neighbor of the artist in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.