艺术‖安德鲁•怀斯宁静优雅的“窗里窗外”——美国国家艺术馆近期展览

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Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea, 1947, tempera on hardboard,
National Gallery of Art, Gift of Charles H. Morgan, 2009. © Andrew
Wyeth
http://s1/mw690/004kDl1Lgy6KGOD33vG50&690Andrew Wyeth, Frostbitten, 1962, watercolor on paper, Private Collection. © Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth, Off at Sea, 1972, tempera on panel, Private Collection. © Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth, Rod and Reel, 1975, watercolor on paper, Dr. and Mrs. James David Brodell. © Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth, Room in the Mirror, Study, 1948, watercolor on
paper, The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection. © Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth, Spring Fed, 1967, tempera on masonite,
Collection of Bill and Robin Weiss. © Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth, Evening at Kuerners, 1970, drybrush on paper,
The Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection. © Andrew Wyeth
In the spring of 2009 the National Gallery of Art was given one of Andrew Wyeth’s most famous paintings, Wind from the Sea (1947). Completed early in the artist’s career, the painting captured the moment when an ocean breeze flowing through an open window gently lifted tattered curtains. During the course of the next sixty years, Wyeth returned repeatedly to the subject of windows, producing more than three hundred works on this theme. Spare and elegant, these paintings are free of the narrative element associated with the artist’s better-known figural compositions. The abstract qualities of his work are therefore more readily apparent, and Wyeth emerges as an artist deeply concerned with the visual complexities posed by the transparency, symbolism, and geometric structure of windows.
Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In gathers together — for the first time — a select group of Wyeth’s images of windows. Included in the exhibition are watercolor studies quickly executed to capture a momentary impression as well as tempera paintings created over an extended period of distillation and simplification. The exhibition begins with Wind from the Sea and proceeds to galleries of images that reflect his extended study of windows at other sites of particular interest, including the Olson house in Maine, the Kuerner farm in Pennsylvania, and his own Brandywine studio.
The exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art, will be seen only in Washington.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Sponsor: The exhibition is made possible by Altria Group.
It is also supported by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts.
Additional funding is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art.
Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 4–November 30, 2014
Passes: Passes are not required for this exhibition.
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