Ploughing the Field, Ipswich
Description
Following a year-long honeymoon spent exploring France and Italy, Theodore Wendel and his wife Philena relocated to Philena’s ancestral homestead in Ipswich, the town that would serve as the artist’s personal version of Giverny for the latter part of his career. As he had in Giverny, Wendel found plenty of inspiring subject matter both close to his home on County Street and among the fields and marshes of the family’s Lower and Upper Farms on Argilla Road. Many of these paintings show the day-to-day activity of a working farmstead, as in Ploughing the Field, Ipswich.
Provenance
By descent through the family of the artist
Inscriptions
Labels
Exhibitions
Bringing to Light: Theodore Wendel, Vose Galleries, Boston, October 19 – December 7, 2019
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and lined, and has scattered retouch in the sky, in the center hills and in the right trees, a small spot below the horses, and some specks at lower right.
Frame Details
Description
Following a year-long honeymoon spent exploring France and Italy, Theodore Wendel and his wife Philena relocated to Philena’s ancestral homestead in Ipswich, the town that would serve as the artist’s personal version of Giverny for the latter part of his career. As he had in Giverny, Wendel found plenty of inspiring subject matter both close to his home on County Street and among the fields and marshes of the family’s Lower and Upper Farms on Argilla Road. Many of these paintings show the day-to-day activity of a working farmstead, as in Ploughing the Field, Ipswich.
Provenance
By descent through the family of the artist
Inscriptions
Labels
Exhibitions
Bringing to Light: Theodore Wendel, Vose Galleries, Boston, October 19 – December 7, 2019
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and lined, and has scattered retouch in the sky, in the center hills and in the right trees, a small spot below the horses, and some specks at lower right.
