Winter Orchard

© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delawar…
© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Winter Orchard
© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Winter Orchard

Datec. 1939
Artist (American painter, 1917–2009)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions21 x 29 in. (53.3 x 73.7 cm)
frame: 31 5/8 × 40 5/8 in. (80.3 × 103.2 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1940
Object number1940-4
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFascinated by what he called "the changing, changing, changing quality of the sky," Wyeth renders it in delicate gradations of blue-gray, allowing the paper itself to provide the white.