The artist; sold January 1948 through (MacBeth Gallery, New York) to Clay Bartlett [1907-1955], Manchester, Vermont;[1] sold February 1952 to Charles Hill Morgan [1902-1984], Amherst; his estate;[2] gift 2009 to NGA. [1] See the detailed discussion of the painting's provenance in Nancy K. Anderson, "_Wind from the Sea_: Painting Truth beneath the Facts," in Nancy K. Anderson and Charles Brock, _Andrew Wyeth: Looking In, Looking Out_, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014: 21-22, 179 nn. 37-44. [2] By terms of Morgan's will, the painting was on loan to the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, for 25 years after his death before being given to the NGA.