$35,000
Estimate: $50,000 - $80,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 3, 2018 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'J. Wyeth' bottom left; with 'Gelatine' stamp bottom right, mixed media on paper
Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 29 1/2 in. (54.9 x 74.9cm)
Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
M.B.N.A. American Bank, Wilmington, Delaware.
With Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Acquired directly from the above.
Private Collection, New Jersey.
EXHIBITED:
"A Century of Wyeths," William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, May 29-October 17, 1999.
"Monhegan," William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, May 13-August 6, 2000.
"A Collector's Passion: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, 1938-2004," Pollak Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, March 19-21, 2007.
LITERATURE:
Joyce Hill Stoner, A Collector's Passion: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, 1938-2004, West Long Branch, New Jersey, 2007.
NOTE:
The present piece depicts the home of Dr. Alonzo Tredwell on Monhegan Island in 1907. Entitled "Four Winds," the property was adjacent to the piece of land that Rockwell Kent had purchased for his mother. About Dr. Tredwell, Jamie Wyeth said: "He's not a commodore, I just named it that because I liked all of his flags. It's sort of a portrait of him. One of the fishermen on Monhegan built this very elaborate flagpole for him in the winter. That summer he put up all these flags and of course we had a windstorm and the whole thing blew down."