RIDGEFIELD, CT.-American painter Charles Sperry Andrews III, 87, died. He was born on October 5, 1917, on Central Park West in New York City. At the age of eight he began to sketch seriously. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and later at the Art Students League of New York. He met Doris Bass at the Art Students League and she later became his wife for 55 years. The couple bought the main Julian Alden Weir farmhouse after the death of Mahonri Mackintosh Young, the sculptor who was the son-in-law of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir.

The work of Sperry Andrews is in the permanent collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, the National Academy of Design and the New Britain Museum of American Art. He had one-man exhibitions at the Lacardia Gallery and Feragil Gallery in New York, the Lyme Academy of Art, and locally at the Katonah Gallery, Bethel Gallery and Westport’s Kipnis Gallery. His work has also been exhibited at The National Academy of Arts and Letters and the Slater Memorial Musuem in Norwich, among others.