Farnsworth announces historic bequest of 27 major Wyeth works from Betsy Wyeth
James Wyeth, (American, b. 1946), Shorty, 1963. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches.
ROCKLAND, ME
.-The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, announced the receipt of major gifts of art from the bequest of Betsy James Wyeth. All twenty-seven new acquisitions by the three generations of Wyeth painters, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, will be on view, beginning Saturday, May 15, as part of a landmark new exhibition entitled Betsys Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition will be accompanied by a complementary exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth: Partner and Muse, which features five Wyeth works that have never been exhibited in public. Betsy James Wyeth passed away last spring, at the age of ninety-eight.
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Farnsworth receives 27 works by three generations of Wyeths
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“Geraniums” by Andrew Wyeth is part of a gift to the Farnsworth Museum by the late Betsy Wyeth.
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The Farnsworth Art Museum has received 27 pieces of artwork by three generations of Wyeths, including prominent paintings and drawings that never have been exhibited publicly, in what the director of the Rockland institution is calling “a transformational moment in our history.”
The gift is from the matriarch of the prominent North American art family, the late Betsy Wyeth, Andrew’s wife, who died last year at age 98.
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