The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, has announced the receipt of major gifts of art from the bequest of Betsy James Wyeth. The bequest of twenty-seven works includes two well-known Andrew Wyeth watercolors featuring the Olson House—Room after Room
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Geraniums, 1960. Drybrush watercolor on paper, 20.75 x 15.5 inches.
and Geraniums; the N.C. Wyeth oil painting Fisherman’s Family; as well as Jamie Wyeth’s famed Monhegan oil painting Islander.
The new works will be included in an exhibition entitled Betsy’s Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, on view in the Farnsworth’s Hadlock Gallery through March 27, 2022.
James Wyeth, (American, b. 1946), Shorty, 1963. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches.
The accompanying exhibition Betsy Wyeth: Partner and Muse will feature Andrew Wyeth’s portraits of his wife Betsy, who appeared in his paintings from the summer they met in 1939 until the summer before the artist’s death in 2009. At the center of the exhibition is
Maga's Daughter, an iconic tempera exhibited in Maine for the first time, along with several watercolors and drawings of Betsy that have never been displayed publicly before.
