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Feb 11, 2020

End of Olsons

1969

Andrew Wyeth

(American, 1917–2009)

America

Tempera on panel

Unframed: 46.5 x 49.5 cm (18 5/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Promised Gift of Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley 22.2020

Location

226B American Modern

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The Olson house in Cushing, Maine, made famous by Wyeth, is a National Historical Landmark.

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A prominent realist painter during the modern era, Wyeth focused on rural themes throughout his long career. End of Olsons is the final painting he produced at the rustic Maine home of Alvaro and Anna Christina Olson, siblings he befriended for more than 20 years. The brother and sister had died recently, and Wyeth’s composition presents the abandoned house accompanied by a pair of swallows soon to depart for the winter.

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Inscription

Signed, lower center right: A.W.

Provenance

1969

(Coe Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine)

1969-1979

Mr.Joseph E. Levine [1905-1987] and Mrs. Joseph E. Levine [1938-1987], Greenwich, CT, sold to Arthur and Holly Magill

by 1979-1990

Arthur and Holly Magill, Greenville, SC. sold to a Private Collection

1990-

Private Collection

Corporate Collection Japan

2000

(Sotheby's New York, NY, November 25, 2000, no. 105, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)

2000-

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, promised gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art

Citations

Saenger, Peter. "A Bold Collection in Cleveland," Wall Street Journal, July 30-31, 2022. Mentioned and illustrated, P. C14.

Brown, Heather Lemonedes, ed. The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, exh. cat.(Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022). Mentioned PP. 15, 18, 20, 182, 274-75; Reproduced P. 183.

McCord, David M., Frederick A. Sweet, and Carl Zahn. Andrew Wyeth. Boston, MA : Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. Reproduced: p. 161, no. 168

Corn, Wanda M. The Art of Andrew Wyeth. Greenwich, CT: Published for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by the New York Graphic Society, 1973. Reproduced: p. 43; Mentioned: p. 109, 152

Hoving, Thomas. Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (Fall, 1976). Mentioned: p. 158; Reproduced: p. 160

Greenville County Museum of Art. Works by Andrew Wyeth: From the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection : on Loan to the Greenville County Museum of Art. Greenville, SC.: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1979. Reproduced: p. 27

Betsy James Wyeth. Christina's World: Paintings and Pre-Studies of Andrew Wyeth. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

Venn, Beth, Andrew Wyeth, Adam D. Weinberg, and Michael G. Kammen. Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1998. Reproduced: no. 157

Knutson, Anne Classen, Christopher Crosman, Kathleen A. Foster, Michael R. Taylor, and Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 2005. Mentioned: p. 20, 118; Reproduced: p. 22

Bijutsukan, Aichi-ken, and Fukushima Bijutsukan. Andew Wyeth: Emotion and Creation. Nagoya, Japan : Aichikenbijutsukan, 2008. Reproduced: p. 90

Exhibition history

Andrew Wyeth. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1970).

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 16, 1976 - February 6, 1977).

Andrew Wyeth in Facsimile. United Bank of Denver, Denver, CO (1977).

Works by Andrew Wyeth from the Holly and Arthur Magill Collection. Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, NC (September 11, 1979 - on extended loan).

Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography. Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan (February 3 – April 2, 1995); Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (April 15 – June 4, 1995); Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan (June 6 – July 16, 1995); Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (September 24 – November 26, 1995).

Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 28 - August 30, 1998).

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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