Andrew Wyeth American, 1917-2009
Seated by a Tree, 1973
Watercolor on paper
27⅞ x 21½ inches
70.8 x 54.6 cm
70.8 x 54.6 cm
Signed at lower left: 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; toLeonard E. B. Andrews, Pennsylvania, 1986;
Private collection, Japan, 1989; to
Pacific Sun Trading Company, 2005;
Private collection, Greensboro, North Carolina;
Frank Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, 2016; to
The estate of the aboveExhibitions
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, p. 71Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, The Helga Pictures: Then and Now, 1992-1993
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; San Diego Museum of Art, California; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, The Helga Pictures, 1996-1997
J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Wyeth-Three Generations, June 2-August 16, 1998
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; and the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study, May 4-August 4, 2002
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana; Canton Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, 2004-2005
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, Andrew Wyeth & Family, January 21-May 14, 2006
Adelson Galleries, New York, Helga on Paper, November 3 – December 22, 2006, no. 26, illus. in color p. 48
Adelson Galleries, New York, Andrew Wyeth: Seven Decades, November 18-December 20, 2014
Adelson Galleries, Boston, Drawings and Watercolors, April 15-May 29, 2016
Literature
John Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, New York: Abrams, 1987, p. 71, illus. in color, pl. 59, p. 195David F. Setford, "Reevaluating Andrew Wyeth," Antiques & Fine Art, June 2010, pp. 170-173, illus. in color
Margaret Moffett, "Troubles catch up with local eye center," News & Record, April 11, 2015, pp. 1, 8
Jan Sjorstrom, "Centuries of Art, Under One Roof," Palm Beach Daily News, February 19, 2019, p. 1, 5, illus. in color
"20th Century Masters," Palm Beach Society, March 7, 2019, p. 24 illus. in color
