Andrew wyeth best paintings
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1917 - 2009
A child of the interwar years, Andrew Wyeth came of age during the 1930s at the height of regionalism and the emergence of American modernism with its emphasis on abstract principles of structure and formal handling. High-spirited, intelligence, and artistically precocious from an early age, the youngest child of N.C. and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth, Andrew was schooled at home and received his only art training from his father, who was America’s best-known illustrator. He rapidly developed under his father’s guidance and achieved nearly instant celebrity as a young artist when his first New York show in 1937 at the Macbeth Gallery sold out.
Although Andrew absorbed many important qualities from his father, not least a prodigious work ethic, N.C.’s own style—the emphasis on action, epic scale, and bold use of color and paint handling—was something for the young artist to react against. Unlike his father’s preference for oil, Andrew has worked in tempera sinc
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Bio
The paintings of Andrew Wyeth have been etched in the American national consciousness for more than a half a century. While many of Wyeth’s landscapes and interior views of rural Pennsylvania and Maine are recognizable settings, his work portrays an inner life that is elusive and enigmatic. The youngest of five children, Andrew Newell Wyeth was born on July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in the Brandywine Valley near Philadelphia. He was educated at home with his father, noted illustrator N.C. Wyeth, providing art lessons. When he was only 20 years old, he had his first solo exhibition at Macbeth Gallery in New York City. The rapid and complete sale of the exhibition inventory was an indication of his enormous popularity with the American public in the years to come. In 1939, Wyeth met Betsy James whose family had a summer place not far from the Wyeths in Cushing, Maine. She was 17 years old, Wyeth was 20, and after a week he proposed. They were married the following spring and have remained married for 68 years. Over those years, Betsy has been her husband’s protector- •
Andrew Wyeth
American visual artist (1917–2009)
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Wyeth receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2007 | |
| Born | Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917-07-12)July 12, 1917 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 16, 2009(2009-01-16) (aged 91) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hathorn Cemetery, Cushing, Maine, U.S.[1] |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Christina's World |
| Movement | Regionalist |
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| Parent(s) | N. C. Wyeth and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Andrew Newell Wyeth (WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who worked in a regionalist style, often painting the land and people of his hometown in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and his summer home in Cushing, Maine.
His father, the illustrator and artist N. C. Wyeth, was a key member of the Brandywine School of artists and
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