It was blowing hard yesterday out of the Southwest, gusting to 30 knots. Pelting rain, it was a good day NOT to be on a boat. Instead, we took in the Andrew Wyeth at 100, exhibit at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me.
The bulk of the work on display were the artists ‘studies’; simple works of pencil and watercolor, where he refined his ideas and details for the finished works, yet to come.
‘Goodbye, My Love’ is the study for Andrew Wyeth’s final work, completed in 2008, the year he died.
Spending so many years living and working on the coast of Maine, he must have been a sailor. The Maine coast infuses all his art. Yet I can find no record of his sailing or sailboats he may have owned(research shows he may have owned a Friendship sloop).
I was touched by his final study, ‘Goodbye, My Love’, created along a familiar (to me), thread of water between Allen’s and Benner Island, where he had a studio.
‘Goodbye, My Love’, in pencil and watercolor, shows a Friendship sloop effortlessly sailing away, leaving a placid wake behind.
The bulk of the work on display were the artists ‘studies’; simple works of pencil and watercolor, where he refined his ideas and details for the finished works, yet to come.
‘Goodbye, My Love’ is the study for Andrew Wyeth’s final work, completed in 2008, the year he died.
Spending so many years living and working on the coast of Maine, he must have been a sailor. The Maine coast infuses all his art. Yet I can find no record of his sailing or sailboats he may have owned(research shows he may have owned a Friendship sloop).
I was touched by his final study, ‘Goodbye, My Love’, created along a familiar (to me), thread of water between Allen’s and Benner Island, where he had a studio.
‘Goodbye, My Love’, in pencil and watercolor, shows a Friendship sloop effortlessly sailing away, leaving a placid wake behind.
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