1950s Andrew Wyeth Storing Up Framed Reprint

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This is a framed reprint of Storing Up, a 1959 dry-brush work by Andrew Wyeth, one of the best-known American … Read more This is a framed reprint of Storing Up, a 1959 dry-brush work by Andrew Wyeth, one of the best-known American realist painters of the 20th century.

Two objects sit on a bare, pale field. On the left, a weathered hornets’ nest clings to a forked branch, its torn paper layers drawn cell by cell. On the right stands a gnarled, knotted stump trailing thin roots. Wyeth draws both in fine dry-brush and leaves almost everything else empty, with only scattered leaf bits and faint smudges. The result is spare and wintry, about things gathered and holding on as the season turns. See less