Property of a Hilton Head Island, SC Estate
Description:
Andrew Wyeth (PA, b. 1917-2009), Bird in the House, Collotype, 1983, signed and numbered 22/300 in pencil lower left, and signed in the image lower left, printed by Triton Press Inc., matted and framed. Frame size: 35 1/2 in. x 28 1/2 in.
Andrew Wyeth was a widely celebrated American artist who specialized in realist watercolor and tempera paintings of people and landscapes. Born on July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, PA, he was the son of the illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Throughout his career, Wyeth’s figurative paintings remained popular even in a postwar era dominated by abstraction. The artist died on January 16, 2009 at the age of 91 in his hometown of Chadds Ford, PA. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. (Artnet.com)
Measurements: Height: of sheet 30 1/2 in. x Width: 23 in.
Condition:
Good condition, not viewed out of frame.
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