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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SOPHIE F. DANFORTH
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Blue Day
Details
ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)
Blue Day
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1942
Blue Day
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1942
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, Bay Head, New Jersey, gift from the above.
Private collection, Wilmington, Delaware, 1959.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, January 1964, then by descent to the late owner.)
Private collection, Bay Head, New Jersey, gift from the above.
Private collection, Wilmington, Delaware, 1959.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, January 1964, then by descent to the late owner.)
Literature
"Andy's World," Time, December 27, 1963, p. 45, illustrated.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, California, Biltmore Art Gallery, Twenty Oils and Watercolors by Five Eastern and Two Western Painters, January 1943.
Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, New England Album, August-September 1943.
Oakland, California, Mills College Art Gallery, Winter 1945.
San Francisco, California, Legion of Honor, Art from the Home Front, February-March 1945.
Claremont, California, Pomona College, June 1945.
Sacramento, California, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, July 1945.
Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, New England Album, August-September 1943.
Oakland, California, Mills College Art Gallery, Winter 1945.
San Francisco, California, Legion of Honor, Art from the Home Front, February-March 1945.
Claremont, California, Pomona College, June 1945.
Sacramento, California, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Watercolors by Andrew Wyeth, July 1945.
Further Details
The Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center of the Brandywine Museum of Art confirms that this object is recorded in Betsy James Wyeth’s files.