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Andrew Wyeth, born 1917 and died 2009, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Portrait of Andrew Wyeth - 1969
By Jamie Wyeth (son)
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Wyeth became an internationally exhibited, award-winning artist with pieces like "Christina's World," "A Crow Flew By" and "The Clearing,"
Andrew Wyeth - Christina's World - 1948
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Also, as well as Wyeth’s portrait series "The Helga Pictures."
Braids (Helga) - 1977
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He is known primarily for his realistic paintings of the buildings, fields, hills, and people of his community.
A Crow Flew By - 1949
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Wyeth’s father, N.C. Wyeth, was a well-known illustrator of childhood classics such as Kidnapped and Treasure Island.
N.C. Wyeth
“For four long summer months of dust and heat Cassidy had been a freighter”
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Newell Wyeth studied under Howard Pyle and served as Andrew’s sole teacher.
N.C. Wyeth - The Deerslayer
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“Andrew Wyeth’s first exhibition was in 1936 at the Art Alliance of Philadelphia, but his first important New York City show took place in 1937 at the Macbeth Gallery.”
The Clearing
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He was well received at the Macbeth Galleru show and sold every painting exhibited.
The Concord River near Needham, Massachusetts - Early watercolor
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.The subject matter of Wyeth’s Tempera (egg based) & watercolor paintings have come almost entirely from two localities.
Cape May - Andrew Wyeth
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The Brandywine Valley around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Cushing, Maine the area near his summer home.
Wind from the Sea - 1956
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He preferred a palette consisting mostly of earth tones but achieved great depth, subtlety and detail.
First Snow - 1959
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He is described as an American Realist, but his work holds a strong emotional quality outside of photographic realism.
The Flour Mill
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“His best-known painting, Christina’s World (1948), achieves a note of melancholy in its depiction of a polio victim seemingly trying to climb up a hill.”
Albino Study -2002
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This work also exemplifies his use of unusual angles & his mastery of light.
Not Plowed - 1989
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“Between 1971 and 1985 Wyeth secretly painted Helga Testorf, his neighbor in Chadds Ford, creating hundreds of images of her.
Helga
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Art historians often characterized Wyeth’s work as ‘sentimental’ (oh the shade) as his style harked back to an earlier age & antithetical to abstract art.
Helga - Overflow - 1978
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And quite opposite to the abstract trajectory of 20th-century art
Helga
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Nevertheless, in-spite of the criticism Wyeth’s work has always been popular.
Helga
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Wyeth was the first painter to receive the Presidential Freedom Award, presented to him in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.
Portrait of John F. Kennedy by Artist Jamie Wyeth (son)
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“In 1977 Wyeth became the first American artist since John Singer Sargent to be elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts,
Lighthouse
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And in the next year he became an honorary member of the Soviet Academy of the Arts.
Weather side
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In 1980 he became the first living American artist to be elected to Britain’s Royal Academy.
Her Room
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His exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1967 established a new attendance record for that institution.
Roof Top (My fav)
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A 1987 show of his so-called “Helga pictures,” organized by the National Gallery of American Art in Washington, D.C., was also very popular,
Around the Corner - 1994
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As was a 2006 retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dr. Syn
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In 1990 Wyeth became the first artist to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
Self - Portrait
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in 2007 he was a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.
Siri
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Andrew Wyeth, Autobiography was published in 1995.
Berry Bucket
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Quite by accident I met Mr. Wyeth as small child while he visited my family’s next door neighbor.
“Christina Olson,” 1947
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Quite by happenstance I met Mr. Wyeth when I was a child. The occasion memorable because I my mother greeted him uncharacteristically with great reverence so I knew he was someone special. 🤷♀️
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He was a friend or relative of our next door neighbor. Sometime afterwards my mother took me to a retrospective of his work at the Legion of Honor (I think) & remember being wowed. Perhaps that is why he was on the west coast. 🤷♀️
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Additional information:
Andrew Wyeth at 100 and the Story Behind His Most Famous Painting
time.com/4840031/andrew…
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A Journey in Pictures for Andrew Wyeth on His Centennial Birthday
newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
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Official website:
andrewwyeth.com
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Stove
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Winter
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