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Jamie Wyeth
(American, b. 1946)
Lime Bag
ca. 1964
16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
70.3.9
© Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, 1970
Not on view
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.
