Andrew Wyeth - A Survey

A Survey

June 6th – July 29th, 2017

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It is with great pleasure that Somerville Manning Gallery joins in celebrating the 100th birthday of Andrew Wyeth with an exhibition of original paintings that spans eight decades. The show coincides with his major museum exhibition, In Retrospect , that originates at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in June 2017, and then travels to the Seattle Art Museum in the Fall.

Over forty years ago I met Andrew Wyeth. Since that time I have enjoyed a long professional history with the Wyeth family beginning in the 1980s when I first started representing the N.C Wyeth estate. The association continued with major painting exhibitions for N.C Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, as well as the entire Wyeth, McCoy, and Hurd family. Living in the Chadds Ford area everyone has an Andrew Wyeth story, as he was private but visible, painting in the countryside and lunching at the local diner. I was fortunate to share moments discussing our passion, art. Whenever I received a new painting by his father, N.C. Wyeth, I notified Andy and he came to the gallery. We had special moments standing in front of N.C. Wyeth illustrations as I listened to his perspective. His memories and intuitive understanding of a painting enlightened me to his own vision of his work, and how personal every object, chosen or missing from a painting, communicated his feeling of memory and loss.

Wyeth was a pivotal artist in the international art scene, who bravely maintained his own form of realism during a time when most artists shifted from modernism to abstract expressionism. In the face of art world criticism that favored the current mode of abstraction, Wyeth steadfastly painted his own mind and style, using representationalism to express his deep innermost feelings and emotion. Careful examination of his subject and a multitude of studies was his process.

--Victoria Manning President

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Blowing Leaves, 1980 | watercolor | 20 x 27 inches

Blue Eyed Susan, 1977 | watercolor and graphite on paper | 30 ½ x 22 inches

Carolyn Painting, 1933 | watercolor | 14 ½ x 21 inches

Chain Hoist, 1965 | watercolor | 29 x 27 ¾ inches

China Blue, 1987 | watercolor | 20x 26 inches

Corn and Grist, 1976 | watercolor | 21 ½ x 29 ½ inches

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Dry Well (Rain Barrel), 1958 | watercolor | 20 ¾ x 29 ¾ inches

Elsie’s House, 1958 | watercolor | 20 x 28 inches

Farm Horse, 1954 | watercolor | 21 ¾ x 29 ½ inches

Grist Mill, 1968 | watercolor | 20 x 28 inches

Master of Arts, 1999 | watercolor | 19 ¾ x 28 inches

Possum Hollow, 1984 | watercolor | 15 x 22 inches

Pumpkin Hill, 1977 | watercolor | 21 ½ x 30 inches

Sharp Shooter, 1997 | watercolor | 19 ½ x 27 ¾ inches

Star Route Study, 1977 | pencil on paper | 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches

Study for Grey Ghost, 1972 | watercolor | 10 x 13 ½ inches

Swallow Tail, 2000 | watercolor | 20 x 14 inches

Taylor’s Run, 1943 | watercolor | 21 ¾ x 30 inches

The Oak: Study for Sentry, 1949 | watercolor | 12 x 16 inches

The Outermost Bell, 1959 | watercolor | 24 ¼ x 30 inches

The Tide Mill, 1968 | watercolor | 13 ½ x 21 ½ inches

Untitled (Helga Looking from Afar), 1979 | watercolor | 20 x 27 ¼ inches

Winfield’s Porch, 1983 | egg tempera on board | 24 ½ x 30 ¼ inches

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