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VERSO
Artist label with title and date
Label, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Label, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida

An original bill of sale from Hammer Galleries will accompany the lot.

Describing this painting art historian Martha R. Severens wrote, “A guard dog chained to the barn warily watches the observer. The sharp angularity of the barn’s gable reinforces the dog’s alertness. The whole is governed by a strict visual geometry that corroborates Wyeth’s statement: ‘I’m far more interested in abstract shapes than many people think.’ The understated simplicity of such areas as the buildings on the right are again reminiscent of [Edward] Hopper’s concern for pure form in some of his New England landscapes.”

PROVENANCE
The artist
Private collection, South Carolina
Hammer Galleries, New York, New York, 2000
Robert D. Reed Collection, Jacksonville, Florida

EXHIBITED
Andrew Wyeth: Southeastern Collections, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, 1992
Andrew Wyeth: America’s Painter, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, 1996

LITERATURE
Andrew Wyeth: Southeastern Collections, Jacksonville Art Museum, 1992, plate 56, illustrated
Martha R. Severens, Andrew Wyeth: America’s Painter, Greenville County Museum of Art, 1996, p. 31, illustrated

Condition ReportAs viewed through glass. Painting appears to be in excellent condition.

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