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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.
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]
The dress she wore belonged to Wyeth. In 2013, an art show at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine displayed a series of sketches for selected works of Wyeth art: Chambered Nautilus, On the Edge and Maidenhair. The show revealed in particular the process of elimination Wyeth chose; in that Wyeth had previously painted two watercolors of ...
At “Wyeths: Three Generations” at Dover’s Biggs Museum of Modern Art starting Nov. 2, a collection from the whole Wyeth clan — father N.C., son Andrew, grandson Jamie — will be exhibited ...
In 2011, Ken Johnson of The New York Times reviewed an exhibition where Winter Fields was included, and wrote about a recurring theme in 20th-century art of declining spirituality: "Winter Fields, a painting that Andrew Wyeth made in 1942 when he was leaning toward Magic Realism, puts it more succinctly.
Otherworld is a 2002 painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth. [1] The painting depicts Andrew Wyeth's wife and manager, Betsy Wyeth, looking out the window of private jet. Andrew had originally titled the painting Betsy's World in reference to his famous painting Christina's World, but it was renamed Otherworld by Betsy.
Wyeth believed in the ability of ordinary things to carry symbolism, "profound meaning," and rich emotion. [5] The same is true for Wind from the Sea. Comparing the rigid window frame to Christina's resiliency, the decaying curtains to her disability, and the crocheted birds to her delicate and surviving femininity, Wyeth considered the painting to be a symbolic portrait of her.
Evening at Kuerners is a 1970 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It is one of Wyeth's paintings of the Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The white farmhouse and a springhouse are depicted at sunset. In the foreground are also two leafless trees and a stream of water which runs from a nearby pond.