Andrew Wyeth
- SIGNED
- Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969
Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969. WYETH, Andrew; MERYMAN, Richard. MERYMAN, Richard, [editor]. Andrew Wyeth. Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969.
Full Description:
[WYETH, Andrew]. [MERYMAN, Richard]. Andrew Wyeth. Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969.
Limited edition, One of 300 copies signed by the artist, this being number 92. Large oblong folio (13 x 16 3/4 inches; 330 x 425 mm). ix, [1, blank], 194 [4] pp. Profusely illustrated with sketches, studies, and finished artwork by Andrew Wyeth.
Publisher's quarter light-blue suede over cloth tan boards. Front board inlayed with blue suede rectangle stamped "AW" in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. White satin ribbon marker. Pictorial endpapers. Housed in publisher's original blue cloth folding case, stamped "AW" in gilt on front board. Overall about fine.
"Andrew Wyeth was a widely celebrated American artist who specialized in realist watercolor and tempera paintings of people and landscapes. His best-known work, Christina's World (1948), depicts a young women laying in the grass and looking towards a farmhouse. Despite the work's everyday subject matter, it is filled with a haunting sense of urgency and foreboding dread. While his work has been deemed melancholic, the artist preferred to describe it as thoughtful." (Artnet)
HBS 69254.
$1,650.
Full Description:
[WYETH, Andrew]. [MERYMAN, Richard]. Andrew Wyeth. Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969.
Limited edition, One of 300 copies signed by the artist, this being number 92. Large oblong folio (13 x 16 3/4 inches; 330 x 425 mm). ix, [1, blank], 194 [4] pp. Profusely illustrated with sketches, studies, and finished artwork by Andrew Wyeth.
Publisher's quarter light-blue suede over cloth tan boards. Front board inlayed with blue suede rectangle stamped "AW" in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. White satin ribbon marker. Pictorial endpapers. Housed in publisher's original blue cloth folding case, stamped "AW" in gilt on front board. Overall about fine.
"Andrew Wyeth was a widely celebrated American artist who specialized in realist watercolor and tempera paintings of people and landscapes. His best-known work, Christina's World (1948), depicts a young women laying in the grass and looking towards a farmhouse. Despite the work's everyday subject matter, it is filled with a haunting sense of urgency and foreboding dread. While his work has been deemed melancholic, the artist preferred to describe it as thoughtful." (Artnet)
HBS 69254.
$1,650.
Details
Title
Andrew Wyeth
Author
WYETH, Andrew
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Gambit, Incorporated: Boston
Date
1969