Chester County Farm

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ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Chester County Farm
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down on paperboard
sight, 21 1⁄4 x 29 1⁄4 in. (53.9 x 74.3 cm.)
Executed in 1947.

Provenance

The artist.
Mr. and Mrs. William Worth, Greenville, Delaware, acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

M. Terence, "Wyeth Canvases Come to Tucson," The Arizona Alumnus, January 1963, pp. 6-9, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April 2-May 8, 1949.
Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, University Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth: An Exhibition of Watercolors, Temperas and Drawings, March 16-April 14, 1963, illustrated.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Valley Heritage, June 3-September 3, 1978.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

The present work depicts at center Rebecca Glatts' house, which was across the Brandywine River from where the artist lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Wyeth was drawn to the early architecture of her home and its three chimneys and painted it in another watercolor titled Rebecca Glatts House in 1944 (Private Collection).

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