Description:
In the artist's hand on lower right corner is written "First color note for Wind from the Sea" On verso is a brief pencil sketch for Wind from the Sea
Label Text:
While working in Christina and Alvaro Olson’s farmhouse in Maine on a hot summer day, Wyeth opened an unused attic window to cool off. As Wyeth gazed out at the landscape, a west wind suddenly blew the ancient crocheted curtain, and the birds stitched on it seemed to move with the breeze. Wyeth impulsively sketched the moment, and adapted it in subsequent drawings into a scene he thought conveyed “a great deal without too much in it.” This watercolor, later reproduced in a related print, was a favorite of the poet Robert Frost, who used to borrow it from its previous owner in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Erin Morrison, Class of 2009
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