American Art Collaborative

Andrew Wyeth was fifteen years old when he entered the studio of his father, N. C. Wyeth, to begin his artistic training. Within the next five years he enjoyed his first sold-out exhibition of watercolors in New York City. One of his self-described “brash watercolors with deep, almost exaggerated tones,” The Murray House was created using paints directly from their tubes and is typical of Wyeth’s early work. The depiction of a place in Port Clyde, Maine, where his family spent summers, it demonstrates the fluid and assured handling that immediately garnered Wyeth comparisons to Winslow Homer