Finding Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth spent a lot of time,         
some three decades (1939-1968),
at the Olson House,
on the Cushing Peninsula in Maine,   
talking, sketching,
painting,
finding inspiration.

Alvaro and Christina Olson,
the brother and sister who lived there,
became his friends.  

Wyeth used an upstairs room as his studio,
where he painted over 300 paintings.
It was the view from
a third storey window that inspired
his well known, iconic painting,
Christina’s World.  

I visited the empty house
during the summer of 2010,
a house filled with tangible emotion
and light.  

A house pregnant with stories and secrets.

2011, edition of 20
6 x 6 1/2 inches (23 images), printed softcover, perfect bound book presented in embossed portfolio

Prints available upon request (set of 25 archival inkjet prints, 8 x 8 inches, edition of 5, presented in a linen box). Artist’s book edition sold out.

Collections
Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec; Bowdoin College; Columbia University; Farnsworth Museum; Lafayette College; McGill University; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Phoenix Art Museum; Stanford University; Toronto Public Library; University of Montréal; University of Toronto; University of Tulsa; University of Washington; Wyeth Study Center

Literature
Maine & American Art: The Farnsworth Art Museum, New York: Rizzoli/Electa, 2020
Andrew Wyeth at 100, Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2017

Exhibitions
Andrew Wyeth at 100: The Olson House: Photographers’ Muse, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, 2017
Ewa Monika Zebrowski: Seven Artist’s Books, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 2015
Le Livre Photographique au Québec, LIBRARIE FORMATS, Montréal, Québec, 2015 (Mois de la Photo)
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2015
INFOCUS: Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 2014
Quietude, Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2014 (solo exhibition)
turnthepage Book Art Fair, Norfolk, United Kingdom, 2014
Octavo Fika: Narrative, Kalopsia Collective, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2013 (solo exhibition)
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2013 (solo exhibition)
ABECEDARIAN GALLERY, Denver, Colorado, 2013
NY Art Book Fair, Center for Book Arts, New York, 2013
CODEX SF, San Francisco, California, 2013

Press
Review of Finding Wyeth, The Book Arts Newsletter (ed. Sarah Bodman), no. 6, December 2012-January 2013
Ewa Zebrowski: Finding Wyeth by Aline Smithson, LENSCRATCH, 4 December 2012

Awards
Photobook, Prix Lux, 2013