Lot 21
Andrew Wyeth(1917-2009)Stair Window 27 7/8 x 21in
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Stair Window
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (upper right)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
27 7/8 x 21in
Painted in 1954.
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (upper right)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
27 7/8 x 21in
Painted in 1954.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, San Francisco, California, acquired from the above, circa 1954.
Private collection, Ireland, by descent from the above, 1963.
By descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, De Young Museum, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth, July 12-September 23, 1956.
Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth: An Exhibition of Watercolors, Temperas and Drawings, March 16-April 14, 1963, p. 62, no. 45.
Dublin, Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, circa 1971.
This work will be included in Betsy James Wyeth's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Painted in the summer of 1954, the present work depicts stairs descending from the second floor of a woodshed on Christina and Alvaro Olson's farm in Cushing, Maine. This structure is the far right wing of the Olson's house pictured in the distance of the artist's iconic tempera, Christina's World, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.