SA C. Sperry Andrews III1917 – 2005
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National Academician · Plein air landscape painter

The Art of
C. Sperry Andrews III

Oil paintings, watercolors and drawings of Weir Farm, Block Island, the Hudson River and the New England countryside, executed en plein air and from life.

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Untitled landscape
Sperry Andrews standing in the big studio at Weir Farm, about 1987
Sperry AndrewsIn the big studio at Weir Farm, c. 1987

The artist

“I’m an eyeballer, I’d say. I’m inspired by things I see.”

Born
New York City, 1917
Trained
National Academy of Design & Art Students League
Home & studio
Weir Farm, 1957 to 2005
Honors
National Academician, 1994

Charles Sperry Andrews III (1917 to 2005), known as Sperry Andrews, was an American landscape painter and educator. He spent nearly five decades living and working at Weir Farm, the former home of the American Impressionist J. Alden Weir, which he and his wife Doris helped preserve as a national park.

He worked in oil, watercolor, pastel, gouache, scratchboard, etching, graphite and charcoal, mostly at locations throughout Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island. His paintings are held by the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Wadsworth Atheneum and other institutions.

Read his story

4published volumes
449works catalogued online
48years at Weir Farm
1994elected National Academician

The collection

Four volumes, one way of seeing

The work is arranged the way the books arrange it: by place and by theme, not by date.

Volume 1 · 119 works

Weir Farm

In 1957 Sperry and Doris Andrews purchased the Julian Alden Weir farmhouse on the border of Wilton and Ridgefield, Connecticut. The house, yard, barns, studios, pond and woods became one of the primary subjects of his work for nearly five decades.

HouseYardFarmStudiosPondPreserveCora'sFlowersWinter

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Weir Farm, House, No. 7Weir Farm, Yard, No. 33Weir Farm, Farm, No. 56Weir Farm, Pond, No. 95Weir Farm, Preserve, No. 119Weir Farm, Flowers, No. 139

Selected works

From the studio

Keeler Farm, North Salem, NYc. 1980, Watercolor
Vanderbilt Mansionc. 1980, Oil
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Apple Tree, Weir Farmc. 1960, Oil
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Crescent Beach, Block Island, Tower View
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Hillside Pasturec. 1960, Oil
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
Untitled landscapeFrom the Landscapes collection
“Sperry Andrews paints year round out-of-doors… His paintings are completed on the spot, not the usual ‘sketch from the field and finish it in the studio’ scheme. That is undoubtedly why Sperry Andrews’ paintings and drawings have such freshness and harmony of light, color and line.”

Charles Ferguson, Director, New Britain Museum of American Art, 1983

The books

Beauty to Embrace in an Afternoon

Four volumes edited by his son, A. Ballard Andrews, collecting work that has been out of public view for many years. Available on Amazon and Lulu.

Original works

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Original oils, watercolors and drawings are available to collectors, for homes, offices and hospitality spaces. Inquire about a single work or a group of pieces.

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Journal

Notes on the work

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Crescent Beach, Block Island, Tower View, oil painting of cottages and the sea seen through a window

Block Island

Block Island Through Friends' Eyes

Harbors, bluffs, ponds and farmhouses. A look at the island Sperry Andrews painted for years, and the friends who remembered painting beside him.

October 17, 2026 · 2 min read

Where the work was made

Painted on the spot, across the Northeast

He finished his paintings outdoors, in front of the subject. Choose a place on the map to see the work made there.

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