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Mr. Leonard E.B. Andrews

American, 1925 - 2009

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A sketch of the profile of a man on the far side of a tubular shape is at the center of this horizontal sheet. The man’s face is shaded to show the planes of his high cheekbones and full lips. He wears a floppy, brimmed hat. The space around him has a few lines to indicate a hill in the distance and the volume of the object behind which he is shown. Some strokes and dabs of ash-gray are along the bottom and right edges of the sheet.
Andrew Wyeth, Field Hand [verso], 1985, graphite on wove paper, Gift of Leonard E.B. Andrews, 1986.58.1.b

Field Hand [verso]

Andrew Wyeth · 1985 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1986.58.1.b

A man with dark brown skin sits or reclines on the far side of a fallen, ash-white tree trunk in this horizontal watercolor painting. The trunk angles from just above the lower left corner of the sheet down and off the edge of the bottom right corner. The trunk is smooth with some fine cracks running along its length. Shorn roots flare out at the left end. The man sits near the roots so only his face and upper shoulders are visible as he looks to our right in profile. He has high, slightly hollow cheekbones and a prominent, pointed jaw. His upper lip is darker than the lower, and his mouth is closed. He wears a khaki-colored, floppy-brimmed hat and a high-collared white shirt. A hook affixed to the end of a tube, perhaps a prosthetic or tool, at the end of a long strap with a silver buckle is draped over the trunk. Grass and a few plants grow in the lower left corner of the composition, on our side of the tree, and a velvety, moss-green hill swells in the distance against the blank white sheet. We look sharply down onto the roofs of a house and barn in the deep distance, visible just over the edge of the tree near the lower right.
Andrew Wyeth, Field Hand [recto], 1985, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Gift of Leonard E.B. Andrews, 1986.58.1.a

Field Hand [recto]

Andrew Wyeth · 1985 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1986.58.1.a