Andrew wyeth artist biography
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Andrew Wyeth
American visual artist (1917–2009)
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Wyeth receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2007 | |
| Born | Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917-07-12)July 12, 1917 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 16, 2009(2009-01-16) (aged 91) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hathorn Cemetery, Cushing, Maine, U.S.[1] |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Christina's World |
| Movement | Regionalist |
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| Parent(s) | N. C. Wyeth and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Andrew Newell Wyeth (WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who worked in a regionalist style, often painting the land and people of his hometown in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and his summer home in Cushing, Maine.
His fath
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Summary of Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth, one of America's best-known Realist painters of the 20th century, created canvases imbued with the mysteriousness of the real world, thus challenging traditional notions of reality. Wyeth rendered scenes of his everyday life in rural Pennsylvania and Maine, landscapes, and portraits with exacting detail, working primarily in watercolor and tempera instead of the more typical oil or acrylic. While famous for his realist depictions, Wyeth's compositions often carry a sense of the uncanny, which led some critics to call him a Magic Realist. While much beloved by a popular audience and, for a time, the critical establishment, Wyeth's reputation declined in the 1960s, as some felt his paintings did not keep up with the times and were not relevant to a contemporary culture that was experiencing various upheavals. Wyeth refused to change his style and continued painting the rural life he had always known. Later still, Wyeth became an American legend
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American Painter Andrew Wyeth
Born on July 12, 1917, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Andrew Wyeth was the youngest of five children born to illustrator N. C. Wyeth and his wife. Andrew came equipped with a bad hip and frequent bouts with illnesses, and parents decided that he was too fragile to attend school, so instead hired tutors. (Yes. Andrew Wyeth was homeschooled.)
While aspects of his childhood were rather solitary, for the most part, life in the Wyeth home was filled with art, music, literature, berättande, a never-ending succession of props and costumes that N. C. used to compose his paintings and, of course, the large Wyeth family.
His Start in Art
Andrew began drawing a very early age. N. C. (who taught many students, including daughters Henriette and Carolyn) wisely did not attempt to instruct "Andy" until he'd reached the age of 15 and had some inkling of his own style. For two years, the younger Wyeth received rigorous academic traini