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Landscape painters are rarely the stuff of big headlines, or shocking revelations. And then there’s Andrew Wyeth. The Delaware County painter, famous for his painstakingly realist portraits and ...
The Brandywine River Museum will oversee a display of nearly 7,000 Andrew Wyeth works, the most never seen publicly. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Got a question about life in Philly’s suburbs? Our suburban ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Renowned American artist Andrew Wyeth, famous for landscapes of his native Pennsylvania and Maine, died on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum ...
CHADDS FORD — Now open at the Brandywine Museum of Art, “Andrew Wyeth: Home Places” presents nearly 50 paintings and drawings of local buildings that inspired Wyeth time and again over seven decades ...
<p>Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, died Jan. 16, 2009, at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa. He was 91.</p><p>He was a reclusive ...
Some artists draw their inspiration from a person, an event or an entirely different work of art. For painter Andrew Wyeth, a pair of islands off the coast of Maine had a significant impact on his ...
A New Hampshire couple was quite happy when a rare N.C. Wyeth work they stumbled upon sold for so much at auction. But when the buyer reneged, the sale and their vacation dreams were undone. By Matt ...
Wyeth's watercolor and tempera landscapes and portraits made him one of America's best loved artists. He remained a figurative painter who prospered even in times when the genre was deemed passe.