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End of Olsons
1969
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917–2009)
Contemporary Art
End of Olsons, 1969. Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917–2009). Tempera on panel; unframed: 46.5 x 49.5 cm (18 5/16 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Promised Gift of Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley 22.2020 © Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A prominent realist painter during the modern era, Wyeth focused on rural themes throughout his long career. End of Olsons is the final painting he produced at the rustic Maine home of Alvaro and Anna Christina Olson, siblings he befriended for more than 20 years. The brother and sister had died recently, and Wyeth’s composition presents the abandoned house accompanied by a pair of swallows soon to depart for the winter. The Olson house in Cushing, Maine, made famous by Wyeth, is a National Historical Landmark.
- Maker/Artist
- Wyeth, Andrew
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 46.5 x 49.5 cm (18 5/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed, lower center right: A.W.
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 22.2020
- Credit Line
- Promised Gift of Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley
- Exhibitions
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, <em>Andrew Wyeth.</em> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1970)., <em>Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons</em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 16, 1976 - February 6, 1977)., <em>Andrew Wyeth in Facsimile</em>. United Bank of Denver, Denver, CO (1977)., <em>Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection</em>. Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, NC (September 11, 1979 - on extended loan)., <em>Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography.</em> Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan (February 3 – April 2, 1995); Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (April 15 – June 4, 1995); Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan (June 6 – July 16, 1995); Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (September 24 – November 26, 1995)., <em>Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth</em>. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 28 - August 30, 1998).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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