Andrew Wyeth American, 1917-2009
Peasant Dress, 1972
Watercolor and pencil on paper
19⅞ x 23 inches
50.5 x 58.4 cm
50.5 x 58.4 cm
Signed at lower 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 Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania;
Leonard E. B. Andrews, Pennsylvania, 1986; to
Private collection, Japan, 1989; to
Pacific Sun Trading Company, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2005;
Mary Anne and Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr., Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, 2006
Exhibitions
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; The Brooklyn Museum; Seibu Pisa Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; and Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Japan, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, 1987-1990, no. 10New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; and the San Diego Museum of Art, California, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, 1996-1997
J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Wyeth: Three Generations, June 2-August 16, 1988
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee; and the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study, 2002-2004
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana; Canton Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, 2004—2005, no. 4
Adelson Galleries, New York, Helga on Paper, November 3 – December 22, 2006, no. 5, p. 25 illus. in color
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, Andrew Wyeth & Family, January 21-May 14, 2006
Literature
John Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1987, no. 10, pp. 194, 39 illus. in colorJohn Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, (Japanese edition), Tokyo: Libroport Publishing, 1987, pp. 34-35
Donald Kuspit, David Furchgott, and Penny Kiser, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures, Singapore: International Arts & Artists, 2004, p. 17
David Furchgott and Donald Kuspit, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures, (Chinese edition), Washington, D.C., 2004
Thomas Hoving,Wyeth on Helga: Helga Paintings in Andrew Wyeth's own words, as told to Thomas Hoving, Naples, Florida, 2006, p. 9
David Cateforis, Rethinking Andrew Wyeth, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, pp. 46, 48
William Coleman, Karen Baumgartner, James Welling, and Allison Slaby, Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth, New York: Brandywine Museum of Art, pp. 104, 155
