Collection Sea Boots

Sea Boots

Andrew Wyeth American, 1917 - 2009
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About the Artwork

Andrew Wyeth is perhaps best known for his realistic landscapes of two areas he knows intimately: Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and Cushing, Maine. He is equally recognized as a portraitist who paints only his friends. Sea Boots is a portrait of sorts, characterizing Maine lobsterman Walt Anderson, one of the artist's closest friends; the boots depicted belong to Anderson. Working in his favorite medium of tempera on panel, and with his painstaking attention to detail and meticulous brushwork, Wyeth gives the painting a remarkable verisimilitude.

Sea Boots

1976

Andrew Wyeth

1917 - 2009

American

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Tempera on masonite

Unframed: 29 × 19 3/4 inches (73.7 × 50.2 cm) Framed: 34 5/8 × 25 3/8 × 1 3/4 inches (87.9 × 64.5 × 4.4 cm)

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Contemporary Art after 1950

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford

77.12

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Signed, lower left: Andrew Wyeth

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1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

“Family Art Game.” Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 31 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Bruni, Stephen, et. al. Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition. Boston, 1998, pp. 92, 166; p. 121 (ill.).

Cumming, Robert. ART A Field Guide. New York, 2001, p. 279 (ill.).

Knutson, Anne Classen. Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. New York, 2005, p. 184, no. 82, (pl. 61).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Andrew Wyeth, Sea Boots, 1976, tempera on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford, 77.12.

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