Andrew Wyeth: People and Places

ISBN: 0847859088

Condition: New

The major paintings of iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) presented together in an accessible volume.Andrew Wyeth is an essential introduction to the enduring masterworks of this profoundly popular American artist.Published on the occasion of the centennial of the artists birth, this handsome book highlights works spanning the entirety of the artists seven-decade career painting the landscapes and people he knew in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he lived, and in Maine, where he summered. Many of his most important landscapes and portraits were created in and around his Chadds Ford studio, now part of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, with which Andrew Wyeth was intimately connected since its founding in 1971. A short introduction provides an overview of his life, and descriptive captions contextualize some fifty of the artists finest and most beloved paintings, including Pennsylvania Landscape (1942), Wind from the Sea (1947), Christinas World (1948), Trodden Weed (1951), Roasted Chestnuts (1956), Braids (1977), and Pentecost (1989). Readers will also be treated to works previously unseen, such as Betsys Beach (2006) and Crow Tree (2007).