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Andrew Newell Wyeth (/ ˈ w aɪ ɛ θ / WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He believed he was also an abstractionist, portraying subjects in a new, meaningful way.
Betsy James Wyeth (née Betsy Merle James; 26 September 1921 [1] - 21 April 2020) [2] was an author and art collector. She was also the business manager and archivist of her husband, artist Andrew Wyeth .
Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]
American Heritage also published books under the Horizon name, such as 1961's Horizon Book of the Renaissance, edited by Richard M. Ketchum and written by Plumb, with contributors including Trevor Roper, Kenneth Clark, Iris Origo and Jacob Bronowski.
To acknowledge his distinguished career as an author and his contributions to the Nation through his historically based works: Leo Ryan: November 18, 1983: P.L. 98-159, 97 Stat. 992: On November 18, 1978, Congressman Ryan was murdered in Guyana while on a mission to investigate allegations of abuse at an American camp of cult leader Jim Jones.
Helga Testorf portrayed in Braids (1979) by Andrew Wyeth. The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [1] [2] or c. 1939 [3] [4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
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Henriette Wyeth was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an artistic family. Wyeth was the eldest of the five children of noted illustrator N.C. Wyeth and his wife Carolyn Bockius. [2] Her siblings Carolyn and Andrew also became artists, and all three studied with their father. Andrew Wyeth became the most well-known artist of this family. [3]