Andrew Wyeth 1917 - 2009

M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan, 1964
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Miss Ruth A. Yerion, New York, 1965
Acquired from the above, circa 1985

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Small Paintings of Large Import from the Collection of Lawrence A. and Barbara Fleischman, November-December 1964, illustrated
Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, The Wyeth Family, July-August 1966
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Hundred Years of Watercolor Painting in America, an Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Water Color Society, December 1966-January 1967
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, 1970, no. 64, illustrated p. 110
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, A Tribute to American Realism: The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, January 1976, illustrated
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion, January-March 1980, illustrated
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, The Land of the Brandywine, June-September 1992

Victoria Donohue, "Two private collections provide selective fare," The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1964, illustrated
Mizue, no. 820, 1973, illustrated

Very good condition. Unframed: floating in mat, remnants of old tape along edges of reverse.
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River Boat depicts the dock and boat of Andrew Wyeth's neighbors, who lived just north of his Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania home.