"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."
Andrew Wyeth, iconic American painter, died at 91 today and will be missed the world around. New to Wyeth's work? Click through the jump to learn more about him...
Good Quotes: Andrew Wyeth
"Wyeth offered a prim and flinty view of Puritan American rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. A virtual Rorschach test for American culture during the better part of the last century, Wyeth split public opinion as vigorously as, and probably even more so than, any other American painter including Andy Warhol, whose milieu was as urban as Wyeth's was rural.
Because of his popularity, a bad sign to many art world insiders, Wyeth came to represent middle-class values and ideals that modernism claimed to reject, so that arguments about his work extended beyond painting to societal splits along class, geographical and educational lines. One art historian, in response to a 1977 survey in Art News magazine about the most underrated and overrated artists of the century, nominated Wyeth for both categories."
You can read the full article here from The Herald Tribune.
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This is sad news. I saw his early watercolors at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine I think 2001 along with his father N.C. Wyeth and son James Wyeth's work .
I have always loved that painting above, you just want to crawl up next to that dog and nap.
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I want to get a print of the painting above. The dog looks just like all my dogs when they've stolen a few moments on a counterpane.
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Such sad news. He is by far my favorite American painter. His paintings of Helga are just so beautiful.
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He was a talented artist who will be missed! Fortunately his work will remain with us.
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Sad. We got my dad a print of the painting above, it really captures dogs in general and has such a great feel to it.
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To quote Wendell Berry, it is not a tragedy when an old man dies at the end of his life.
His was long and full, and he passed peacefully in his sleep, and he left the world a richer place than when he entered it.
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I gave a framed copy of this print to my mentor several years ago and she absolutely loved it and hung it in her living room. She died of pancreatic cancer this June. If there an afterlife, I hope she gets to run into Andrew Wyeth and tell him how much she enjoyed it.
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I have always loved this painting. It makes me want to curl up and take an afternoon nap!
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Wyeth's art permeated my east coast childhood. First sighting was one of his dory paintings, spotted in Cape Cod. My father loved that painting.
Christina's World and the napping dog need only b seen once to ear into one's memory. What a master AW was.
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make that:
"need only be seen once to sear into one's memory"
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The textures in this painting are so wonderful. It's as if you could reach you hand out and touch the rough wall, the scruffy spread, the soft fur of the dog. I love it.
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I would HIGHLY recommend a trip to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland Maine to all the Wyeth fans. The Wyeths have been huge supporters of the museum for years, and it is also full of great works by Alex Katz, Fairfield Porter, Thomas Sully, Winslow Homer and many more. Just note that Christina's World is at MoMA in NYC (I think), but your ticket to the Farnsworth also includes a ticket to the Olsen House, about 10 miles away, where Wyeth did many paintings including Christina's World.
No, I don't work for them, I'm just a huge fan!
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