| Trodden Weed | |
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| Artist | Andrew Wyeth |
| Year | 1951 |
| Type | Tempera on board |
| Dimensions | 50.8 cm × 46.35 cm (20 in × 18 1/5 in) |
| Location | Private collection |
Trodden Weed is a 1951 painting by the American artistAndrew Wyeth. It is a self-portrait, displaying the painter from his knees down, dressed in a pair of old, high leather boots.
The boots had belonged toN. C. Wyeth's teacherHoward Pyle.[1] Andrew Wyeth had received the boots as a Christmas gift from his wife in 1950. The boots fitted him and he used them as he walked around the countryside ofChadds Ford recovering from a serious operation. Wyeth described the creation of this painting in a letter published inARTnews in May 1952.[2]
Michael Ennis ofTexas Monthly wrote in 1987: "InTrodden Weed (1951), a self-portrait from the knees down in which the artist donned Howard Pyle's wrinkled old boots, Andrew strides the coppery turf with an autobiographical symbolism that is as hackneyed as it is visually moribund".[3]
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