Andrew wyeth artworks foundry
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Description of description artwork «The gap»
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Breakup
signed 'A. Wyeth' (lower right)
tempera on panel
20 x 28in
Painted in 1994.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, North Carolina, 1994.
Gift to the present owner, 2006.
This lot is being sold with a pair of bronze hands cast from a mold of the artist's hands, by Laran Bronze Foundry, Inc., Chester, Pennsylvania, circa 1985-86, which he used to render the present work. The hands were a gift to the present owner from Betsy James Wyeth who also retained a pair for the family.
Exhibited
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Andrew Wyeth Gallery, May 16-November 17, 1994.
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth - America's Painter, June 18, 1996-Februrary 16, 1997, n.p., no. 49.
Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, and elsewhere, Wondrous Strange - The Wyeth Tradition - Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth, June 21, 1998-February 21, 1999, p. 114, illustrated.
Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends, February 3-December 31, 2001, p. 151, illustrated.
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Works by Andrew Wyeth and Golden Impressions
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Laran Bronze
Laran Bronze is a fine art foundry in Chester, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1984 by Larry and Randy Welker in facilities built for the city's once-booming shipbuilding industry, the foundry has cast many monumental and significant sculptures, including many of the bronze components of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.[1][2] In 1985 or 1986, the foundry cast replicas of the hands of painter Andrew Wyeth; in 2019, one of these replicas sold at auction, along with a Wyeth painting, for $490,230.[3]
The components cast at Laran for the WWII Memorial include four 18-foot columns, eight eagles with 10- to 12-foot wingspans, two 10-foot wreaths, and 24 plaques.[1]
Other works cast at Laran Bronze include:
- Holodomor Memorial, Washington, D.C.[4]
- Keys to Community, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[5]
- Gregor Mendel, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Memorial, Arlington, Virginia[6]
- Brigadier-General John Gibbon statue,Gettysburg battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Sculptures on the Square, Charlotte, North Carolina[7]
- Gem of the Lakes, 311 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois[1]