  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.
  
  
  Title
  Sea Boots
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1976
  
  Artist
  Andrew Wyeth
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1917 - 2009
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Tempera on Masonite
  
  
  Dimensions
  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)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  77.12
  
  
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