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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.
Andrew Wyeth's first painting of the farm was completed in 1932, when Wyeth was just fifteen years old. [ 3 ] In 1945, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Nyeth's three-year-old nephew, Newell Convers Wyeth II (b. 1941) were killed when their car, stalled at the railroad crossing near the northwest corner of the farm, was struck by a train.
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.
Andrew Wyeth. Untitled, 1986. Watercolor on paper, B3150. Unframed: 11 x 14 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
Andrew Wyeth called the area "Betsy’s Village". [2] In 2008, she bought an old sail loft, previously dismantled in Port Clyde. [2] She had it put back together on one of the three islands, as a birthday gift for her husband. [2] The sail loft became the subject of one of Andrew Wyeth's paintings, and was renamed Goodbye by Besty following his ...
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]
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Wilkins complimented him on his drawing and the gentleman thanked her and said his name was Andrew. It wasn't until years later that she discovered the man was American artist Andrew Wyeth . [ 7 ] [ 12 ] The Chadds Ford Historical Society varies in this retelling by saying that Wyeth specifically came to meet Wilkins and her traveling ...