Andrew Wyeth American, 1917-2009
The Swinger, 1969
Drybrush watercolor on paper
14¾ x 24¾ inches
37.5 x 62.9 cm
37.5 x 62.9 cm
Signed at upper right: Andrew Wyeth
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.
Provenance
The artist;Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine, Greenwich, Connecticut;
Arthur and Holly Magill, Greenville, South Carolina;
Gallet Co, Ltd., Tokyo;
[Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 2000, lot 100];
Frank Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; to
The estate of the above
Exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Andrew Wyeth, July 17-September 6, 1970The White House, Washington, D.C., White House Exhibition, February 19-March 28, 1970
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, Ten Americans - Masters of Watercolor, May 16-June 30, 1974
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Two World of Andrew Wyeth: Olsons and Kuerners, October 16, 1976-February 6, 1976
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection, September 11, 1979-January 1, 1989
Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Georgia, Works by Andrew Wyeth at the Quinlan, February 1-March 1, 1985
Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima-City, Japan; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography, 1995
Literature
"Now Showing- Andrew Wyeth Exhibit at the M.F.A.," Boston Arts, July 1, 1970, p. 33"Thursday night hours now for Wyeth Exhibit," Burlington Times, August 13, 1970
Francis W. Hatch, "Sole Witness to 'The Wyeth Canal,'" Yankee, September 1, 1970, p. 49
David McCord and Frederick A. Sweet, Andrew Wyeth, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970, p. 136
Larry Curry, Ten Americans - Masters of Watercolor, New York: Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1974
Thomas Hoving, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth - A Conversation with Andrew Wyeth, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976, p. 191
"Works by Andrew Wyeth: The Holly and Arthur Magill Collection. Andrew Wyeth: 'The most popular of all living American artists.' Exhibit opening grand climax to 'Wyeth coup,'" The Greenville News, September 9, 1979, p. 16
Introduction by John Canaday, Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection, Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 38-39
John Canaday, "Andrew Wyeth: Rising Above the Scorn," The Art Gallery, May 1, 1979, p. 107
Hugh Stevens, "The Lost Art of Porch-Sitting," Country Journal, July 1, 1984, p. 84
Barbara Severens, Betsy James Wyeth, and Arthur Magill, Works by Andrew Wyeth at the Quinlan, Gainsville, Georgia: Quinlan Art Center, 1985
Garrison Keillor, "In Praise of Porches," Utne Reader, June 1, 1985, p. 121
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, "Japanese postcards to accompany Autobiography exhibit," Postcard Reproduction, January 1, 1995
Shuji Takahashi, Thomas Hoving, et al., Andrew Wyeth Retrospective (Japanese edition), Nagoya: Chunichi Shimbun, 1995, p. 106
Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Hoving, Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996, p. 82
Catherine Quillman, "In Paintings, A Rural Soul Jimmy Lynch, A Chadds Ford Native, Speaks of His Former "dark" Self," The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 1998
Thomas Hoving, "Wyeth Trial Balloon - How Hot Does It Have To Be?," ArtNet.com, April 20, 2000
