Description: This is a collograph by Aaron Ashley Inc. of a famous work by Andrew Wyeth. It has been kept in it's original frame from the late 1940s. I cleaned it up, and reframed it back into the original frame to give it many more years for your enjoyment. Andrew Wyeth painted his watercolor Chester County Farm in 1947, which is this collograph version. The work depicts Rebecca Glatts' house, which was located across the Brandywine River from Wyeth's home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Wyeth was drawn to the house's early architecture and three chimneys. He also painted the house in another watercolor in 1944. Dimensions: Frame: 20x16" - Sight: 13.5x9.5" Signature in lower right. Provenance: The private collection of Bill and Margaret Seeley of Boerne, TX Andrew Wyeth, one of America's best-known Realist painters of the 20th century, created canvases imbued with the mysteriousness of the real world, thus challenging traditional notions of reality. Wyeth rendered scenes of his everyday life in rural Pennsylvania and Maine, landscapes, and portraits with exacting detail, working primarily in watercolor and tempera instead of the more typical oil or acrylic. Wyeth's Realism, with its meticulous attention to detail, was not purely documentary. In particular, his compositions often employed skewed vantage points and perspectives, making his subjects seem a little uncanny, or strange. The strange perspective coupled with painstakingly controlled brushstrokes, which are the opposite of expressionistic, create a type of Realism that some critics referred to as Magic Realism. Wyeth's Magic Realism does not traffic in fantastical subjects but instead reveals the material world to be permeated with mystery and uncertainty. Wyeth's preferred media - watercolor and egg tempera - were unusual choices for a modern artist, but his innovative use of a dry brush technique in both media allowed him to build up complex surfaces on the canvas that he likened to weaving. These "woven" surfaces create the effect of a stillness, an almost surreal atmosphere, for his subjects.
Price: 65 USD
Location: San Antonio, Texas
End Time: 2024-12-07T23:21:04.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25 USD
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Artist: Andrew Wyeth
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1917
Theme: Farm, Farmhouse, Old house, Countryside
Production Technique: Collograph
Subject: Rebecca Glatts' House
