![]() ![]() ![]() Wyeth's naturalistic style is marked by strong editing combined with remarkable execution of details. ![]() The first visual artist to appear on the cover of Time magazine, Wyeth was also the first living American-born artist to be given an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. After his father died in a 1945 automobile accident, Wyeth began to incorporate people into his pictures, most notably Christina Olson, and later Siri Erickson, of Cushing, Maine, and his Chadds Ford neighbors Karl and Anna Kuerner and Helga Testorf. Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Wyeth drew his subject matter from the world around him: the interiors and exteriors of the stone buildings, mills, and farms of the Brandywine River countryside, and, in the summers, the clapboard houses and stark landscape of the Maine coast. (American, 1917-2009) An artist who pursued his own course when the rest of the art world was consumed with modernism and abstraction, Andrew Wyeth is considered one of the preeminent representational painters of the 20th century. ![]()
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