Morgan Martin
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WALLACE PAGE STEGNER AND RACHAEL STEGNER SHEEDY, CALIFORNIA
Lot 7
Andrew Wyeth(1917-2009)Brandywine in Winter 21 x 29 1/2 in. (53.3 x 74.9 cm.)
18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New YorkSold for US$100,312.50 inc. premium
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Brandywine in Winter
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
21 x 29 1/2 in. (53.3 x 74.9 cm.)
Executed in 1943.
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
21 x 29 1/2 in. (53.3 x 74.9 cm.)
Executed in 1943.
Footnotes
Provenance
Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, (probably) acquired from the artist.
James Lawrence (1907-1995), Brookline, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1947.
Dorothy (neé Lawrence) Stevens (1906-2002), Sarasota, Florida, sister of the above, gift from the above, 1948.
Marion (Mary) Lawrence (neé Mackenzie) Stegner (1936-2018), Greensboro, Vermont, daughter of the above, by descent from the above, 2002.
By descent to the present owners, 2018.
Exhibited
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Watercolor Exhibition, April 2-23, 1944.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Forty-second Annual Watercolor Exhibition and Forty-third Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, October 29-December 3, 1944.
Cincinnati Art Museum, The Critics Choice of Contemporary American Painting: 49th Annual, March 10-April 8, 1945, n.p., no. 110. (as The Brandywine in Winter)
New York, Armory, Art & Antiques Show, September 1-October 1, 1945.
Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Inc., Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, November 18-December 7, 1946.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Water Colors by Andrew Wyeth, February 1948.
We are grateful for the generous assistance of Mary Adam Landa, Wyeth Collection Manager, The Office of Andrew Wyeth LLC, for providing valuable information from the Wyeth archives, indispensable to the cataloguing of this lot, which will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
According to Mary Adam Landa, the present work was executed south of Andrew Wyeth's Chadds Ford studio, close to Route 100, and was likely done in winter, as Wyeth depicts ice on the banks of the river.