Wind from the Sea
About the painting
Wind from the Sea is a 1947 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It depicts an inside view of an open attic window as the wind blows the thin and tattered curtains into the room.
The painting is housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., it is on view in the East Building on the Ground Level in Gallery 106C.
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2009.13.1
Meanwhile, in the life of Andrew Wyeth
The whole lifeOctober 1945
Father and nephew killed by a train
In October 1945 N. C. Wyeth and his three-year-old grandson Newell Convers Wyeth II were killed when their car stalled on the railway tracks near their home and was struck by a train. Andrew called his father's death a formative event in his art; soon afterwards his painting consolidated into its mature, enduring style.
6 July 1946
Son born: Jamie Wyeth
1947
Gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
In 1947 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Wyeth its gold medal for painting.
