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[7] [11] Testorf, although flattered by the paintings, was upset by the publicity and controversy they provoked. [7] Although Wyeth denied that there had been a physical relationship with Testorf, the secrecy surrounding the sessions and public speculation of an affair created a strain in the Wyeths' marriage. [12]
Andrew Wyeth met Helga Testorf in 1971 while she was nursing Karl Kuerner at the farm. A German immigrant, she lived across Ring Road from the farm with her husband. She soon began secretly modeling for Wyeth in a famous series of paintings and drawings. That year the first nude painting in the series was painted in the sewing room in the farm ...
Braids (1979), portrait of Helga Testorf. In 1986, extensive coverage was given to the revelation of a series of 247 studies of the German-born Helga Testorf, whom Wyeth met while she was attending to Karl Kuerner at his farm. Wyeth painted her over the period 1971 to 1985 without the knowledge of either his wife or Helga's husband, John ...
Andrew Wyeth. Untitled, 1986. Watercolor on paper, B3150. Unframed: 11 x 14 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
Alexandrea Acevedo found herself reeling after learning her husband of five years had been unfaithful for the majority of their marriage ‘I forgave my husband for his three-year affair – here ...
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In the end, Wyeth went with Elaine Benner, also a girl from Waldoboro, who Meryman describes as the: "Helga look-alike." [ 5 ] Benner would also model for the painting Drumlins . It was not until Wyeth returned to Chadds Ford in the fall of 1974 with Crown of Flowers and the finished Maidenhair that he showed them both to his wife Betsy, who ...