Artist:
Jamie Wyeth
(American, b. 1946)
Lime Bag
Medium: Oil on panel
Date: ca. 1964
Dimensions:
16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Accession number: 70.3.9
Copyright: © Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Label Copy:
Completed while Jamie Wyeth was still a teenager, Lime Bag records a view into the dusty and dark recesses of a stone barn. Wyeth’s technique, subject matter, and palette at this stage of his career are still closely tied to those of his father, Andrew Wyeth, and grandfather N. C. Wyeth. As viewer, we stand at the threshold of the barn, where a bag of lime—added to soil to improve its quality and also used to make whitewash—has split open and spilled.
Curatorial RemarksPainted at Ball farm, Pennsylvania (says Jamie Wyeth January 2010). We mistakenly gave the medium as tempera prior to 2011. Confirmed it is definitely an oil in April 2011.
On view