Sea Boots

1976

Andrew Wyeth American, 1917 - 2009

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About the Artwork

Andrew Wyeth is perhaps best known for his realistic landscapes of two areas he knows intimately: Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and Cushing, Maine. He is equally recognized as a portraitist who paints only his friends. Sea Boots is a portrait of sorts, characterizing Maine lobsterman Walt Anderson, one of the artist's closest friends; the boots depicted belong to Anderson. Working in his favorite medium of tempera on panel, and with his painstaking attention to detail and meticulous brushwork, Wyeth gives the painting a remarkable verisimilitude.

Title Sea Boots

Artwork Date 1976

Artist Andrew Wyeth

Life Dates 1917 - 2009

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Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Tempera on masonite

Dimensions Unframed: 29 × 19 3/4 inches (73.7 × 50.2 cm) Framed: 34 5/8 × 25 3/8 × 1 3/4 inches (87.9 × 64.5 × 4.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 77.12

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Signed Signed, lower left: Andrew Wyeth

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1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 31 (ill.).

Bruni, Stephen, et. al. Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition. Boston, 1998, p. 92, 166 (col. ill. p. 121).

Cumming, Robert. ART A Field Guide. New York, 2001, p. 279 (ill.).

Knutson, Anne Classen. Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. New York, 2005, no. 82, pl. 61, p. 184.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Andrew Wyeth, Sea Boots, 1976, tempera on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Beresford, 77.12.