Details
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Chain Hoist
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
19 x 27¾ in. (48.3 x 70.5 cm.)
Executed in 1965.
Provenance
The artist.
The Bissell Family, acquired from the above, 1965.
Private collection, by descent, until 1995.
Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 1997, lot 261.
Wyeth Hurd Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
MBNA Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, 1999.
[With]Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 2002.
Literature
E.P. Richardson, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1966, p. 100, no. 212.
Brandywine River Museum, The Brandywine Heritage, exhibition catalogue, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1971, n.p., illustrated.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938-1966, October 5-November 27, 1966, no. 212.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Brandywine Heritage: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth, June 18-October 17, 1971.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Brandywine Valley, June 1-September 16, 1973.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Heritage Gallery, September 11-November 22, 1981.
Loretto, Pennsylvania, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Masters of American Watercolor: A 100 Year Anniversary, June 17-September 10, 1995.
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