Saturday, January 17, 2009

A Tribute to Andrew Wyeth

Chadds Ford, PA


Andrew Wyeth
American Realist Painter

(click above to see his last painting Stop, from 2008)

July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009


Christina's World
1948
(perhaps his best known work and certainly one of the most important of the 20th century)

Trodden Weed
1951

The Drifter
1964

Daydream
(perhaps my favorite Helga picture)

Farm Road
1979

Late Fall
1981

Long Limb
1999

Otherworld
2002
The Carry
2003

Jamie Wyeth once likened his father's work to that of the poet Robert Frost. "At one level, it's all snowy woods and stone walls," the younger Wyeth said. "At another, it's terrifying. He exists at both levels. He is a very odd painter."

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