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First Traders on the Brandywine
First Traders on the Brandywine
First Traders on the Brandywine
© 2019 Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
(American, 1917 - 2009)

First Traders on the Brandywine

Pen and ink on paper
1940
22 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (57.8 × 41.3 cm)
81.8.5
© 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Gift of Lammot duPont Copeland, 1981
Not on view

 Early in his career Andrew Wyeth did illustration work for financial security. He contributed illustrations, frontispieces and dustjackets to over twenty books even while he was creating independent art and beginning to gain critical attention. This was one of his last commercial projects