“Distant Thunder”
Andrew Wyeth

Print
Collotype Reproduction Print
30 x 19.5 in.
1980

His wife Betsy, says Andrew Wyeth, was a wonderful berry picker and he always wished to paint her picking berries. One afternoon he wandered up to the field behind their house and saw her asleep there. It was a clear afternoon; but as distant thunder rumbled over near Thomaston (Maine), the dog Rattler's head popped out of the grass. It was just like that, Wyeth said, even to the spruce stem that a porcupine had gnawed bare, and Rattler's ears cocked listening to the thunder. Wyeth made it into this image of the peace of a summer afternoon. The original was painted in 1961.

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