Old Orchard
Artist
Andrew Wyeth
(American, 1917 - 2009)
Date1957
MediumWatercolor, opaque watercolor, and ink on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 20 × 27 15/16 inches (50.8 × 70.94 cm)
Framed: 24 7/8 × 32 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (63.17 × 83.19 × 5.41 cm)
Framed: 24 7/8 × 32 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (63.17 × 83.19 × 5.41 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Diana Reid Hearne James
Object numberF97-29/2
Signedl.r.: "Andrew Wyeth"
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DescriptionThe watercolor depicts a wind-blown field in tones of mossy green and brown. The landscape is divided into three horizontal bands, indicating field, trees and sky. Several tall stalks of grain begin near the lower right corner of the paper and extend diagonally toward the left. Their tops are silhouetted against the overcast sky. Scratches into the surface of the paper indicate blades of grass.Gallery Label
About his technique, Andrew Wyeth wrote: "I work in dry brush [watercolor] when my emotion gets deep enough into a subject. So, I paint with a smaller brush, dip it into color, splay out the brush and bristles, squeeze out a good deal of the moisture and color with my fingers so there is only a very small amount left. Then when I stroke the paper with the dried brush, it will make various distinct strokes at once, and I start to develop the forms of whatever object it is until they start to have real body.… You weave the layers of dry brush over and within the broad washes of color."
Copyright© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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