Online Auction 18433American Art Online
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Lot 4Property from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Sold to Benefit the Museum

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

Prevailing Wind

Closed7 August 2020

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USD 93,750

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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Prevailing Wind
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
21 5/8 x 29 ¾ in. (54.9 x 75.6 cm.)
Executed in 1951.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
William E. Scott Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, acquired from the above, 1954.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1963.

Specialist note

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

The present watercolor depicts the cupola on the Dunn & Elliot sail loft in Thomaston, Maine. In operation from 1864 to 1920, the company manufactured sails for numerous ships built up and down the Maine coast.

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