Andrew Wyeth was primarily classified as a realist painter, although he considered himself an abstractionist.
"My people, my objects breathe in a different way: there's another core—an excitement that's definitely abstract. My God, when you really begin to peer into something, a simple object, and realize the profound meaning of that thing—if you have an emotion about it, there's no end."
Wyeth's favorite subjects to paint were the lands and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine, the namesake of this watercolor in the MMA collection.