SOLD Sunflowers
by Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009)18⅜ x 23 inches (sight size)
Signed lower right: A. Wyeth
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.
Artist Biography
Prominent Twentieth Century American Realist
By Margarita Karasoulas
Nationally recognized as one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Andrew Wyeth’s enduring images of rural America hold a unique place in contemporary American painting.
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Born in 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Andrew Newell Wyeth was the son of the famous artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth and Carolyn Brenneman Bockius. As a child, Wyeth was tutored at home and began an apprenticeship with his father at the age of fifteen. Under this rigorous instruction, Andrew studied Rimmer’s anatomy, trained in painting still life, and
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