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אנדרו ויית' (1917-2009)

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<div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div> <div>Andrew Wyeth’s "Quart and a Half" (1961) belongs to a deeply personal sequence of works inspired by a single day he and his wife, Betsy, spent picking blueberries in a field as a storm gathered. That afternoon became the genesis for one of Wyeth’s most iconic tempera paintings, "Distant Thunder" (1961), which depicts Betsy reclining in the grass with their dog, suffused with a charged stillness before the storm. A preparatory watercolor, "Blueberries, Study for Distant Thunder" (1961, Farnsworth Art Museum), further traces the theme. "Quart and a Half" marks the haunting aftermath, shifting focus from figure to still life: a blueberry carton and tin cup sit abandoned in the grass, their utilitarian presence transformed into emblems of memory and absence. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>The composition is stripped to essentials—a high horizon line, a darkened field, and the luminous carton and cup catching the eye. The disturbed grass, delicately rendered in intricate strokes, becomes a subtle index of Betsy’s earlier presence, now vanished. That empty imprint became the emotional core of the painting, an emblem of transience. As an early still life, the work reveals Wyeth’s ability to invest the simplest objects with profound emotional resonance, extending the still-life tradition, long associated with mortality and the ephemeral nature of life, into a meditation on the quiet echoes of lived experience. Executed in watercolor, the painting also highlights Wyeth’s balance of spontaneity and restraint, the flickering grasses animated with immediacy yet anchored by a deliberate compositional rigor. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>"Quart and a Half" also holds distinguished exhibition history. It was featured in the traveling retrospective "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings 1938 into 1966", shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966–67). Earlier, the work was chosen as the cover image for the catalogue of the 1963 University of Arizona Art Gallery exhibition, underscoring its importance within Wyeth’s oeuvre. Together with "Distant Thunder" and its study, this watercolor transforms a shared picnic into an enduring meditation on memory, impermanence, and the poetry of everyday life. </div>
Quart and a Half 1961 21 x 29 1/4 אינץ' (53.34 x 74.3 ס"מ) צבעי מים על נייר
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טוסון, אריזונה, גלריה לאמנות אוניברסיטאית באוניברסיטת אריזונה, אנדרו ווית', 16 במרץ - 14 באפריל, 1963
פילדלפיה, פנסילבניה, האקדמיה לאמנויות יפות של פנסילבניה, אנדרו ווית': טמפרות, צבעי מים, מברשת יבשה, רישומים 1938 לתוך 1966, 8 באוקטובר - 27 בנובמבר 1966
בולטימור, מרילנד, מוזיאון בולטימור לאמנות, אנדרו ווית': טמפרס, צבעי מים, ד... עוד...ry Brush, רישומים 1938 לתוך 1966, 13 בדצמבר 1966 - 22 בינואר 1967
ניו יורק, מוזיאון וויטני לאמנות, אנדרו ווית': טמפרות, צבעי מים, מברשת יבשה, רישומים 1938 לתוך 1966, 14 בפברואר - 2 באפריל, 1967
שיקגו, אילינוי, המכון לאמנות של שיקגו, אנדרו ווית': טמפרות, צבעי מים, מברשת יבשה, רישומים 1938 לתוך 1966, 21 באפריל - 4 ביוני 1967
Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Collections, 10 - 29 באוקטובר 1967
גרינוויל, דרום קרוליינה, מוזיאון מחוז גרינוויל לאמנות, אנדרו ווית' באוספים הדרומיים, 1 בפברואר - 31 במרץ, 1979
סאלם, וירג'יניה, רואנוק קולג', מתוך אוסף: עבודות והלוואות מאת נאמנים וידידים של רואנוק קולג', 24 באוקטובר - 21 בנובמבר, 1997
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פול הורגן, אנדרו ווית'; תערוכה של צבעי מים, טמפרות ורישומים, 16 במרץ עד 14 באפריל, טוסון, אריזונה, 1963 (אייר על הכריכה)
EP ריצ'רדסון, "אנדרו ווית'," האטלנטי, יוני 1964, עמ'. 67
אדגר פרסטון ריצ'רדסון והאקדמיה של פנסילבניה לאמנויות יפות, אנדרו ווית': טמפרס, צבעי מים, מברשת יבשה, רישומים 1938 לתוך 1966, ניו יורק, ניו יורק 1966, עמ' 82
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"קוורט וחצי" (1961) של אנדרו וויית' שייך לרצף אישי עמוק של עבודות בהשראת יום אחד בו הוא ואשתו, בטסי, בילו בקטיף אוכמניות בשדה בזמן שסופה התגברה. אותו אחר צהריים הפך למקור לאחד מציורי הטמפרה האיקוניים ביותר של וויית', "רעם רחוק" (1961), המתאר את בטסי שוכבת על הדשא עם כלבה, ספוגה בדממה טעונה לפני הסערה. ציור בצבעי מים מקדים, "אוכמניות, מחקר לרעם רחוק" (1961, מוזיאון האמנות פרנסוורת'), עוקב עוד אחר הנושא. "קוורט וחצי" מסמן את התוצאות הרדופות, ומעביר את המוקד מדמות לחיים דוממים: קרטון אוכמניות וכוס פח נטושים על הדשא, נוכחותם התועלתנית הופכת לסמלים של זיכרון והיעדר.





הקומפוזיציה מופחתת לעיקרים בסיסיים - קו אופק גבוה, שדה חשוך, וקרטון זוהר וכוס שתופסים את העין. הדשא המופרע, המוצג בעדינות במשיכות מורכבות, הופך לאינדקס עדין לנוכחותה המוקדמת של בטסי, שכעת נעלמה. חותם ריק זה הפך לליבה הרגשית של הציור, סמל של ארעיות. כציור טבע דומם מוקדם, היצירה חושפת את יכולתו של וויית' להעניק לעצמים הפשוטים ביותר תהודה רגשית עמוקה, ולהרחיב את מסורת הטבע הדומם, המקושרת זה מכבר לתמותה ולטבע החולף של החיים, למדיטציה על ההדים השקטים של חוויות חיים. הציור, המבוצע בצבעי מים, מדגיש גם את האיזון של וויית' בין ספונטניות לאיפוק, העשבים המרצדים מונפשים במיידיות אך מעוגנים בקפדנות קומפוזיציונית מכוונת.





"ליטר וחצי" מחזיקה גם בהיסטוריה מכובדת של תערוכות. היא הוצגה בתערוכה הרטרוספקטיבית הנודדת "אנדרו וויית': טמפרות, צבעי מים, מכחול יבש, רישומים 1938 עד 1966", שהוצגה במוזיאון לאמנות של פילדלפיה, מוזיאון לאמנות של בולטימור ומוזיאון ויטני לאמנות אמריקאית (1966–1967). קודם לכן, היצירה נבחרה כתמונת השער לקטלוג התערוכה של גלריית האמנות של אוניברסיטת אריזונה משנת 1963, מה שהדגיש את חשיבותה ביצירתו של וויית'. יחד עם "רעם רחוק" והמחקר שלו, צבעי מים זה הופך פיקניק משותף למדיטציה מתמשכת על זיכרון, ארעיות ושירה של חיי היומיום.
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