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Andrew Wyeth (1917 - )

The American Realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, is considered one of twentieth-century America's quintessential artists. His portraits, interiors, and landscapes often portray a sense of privacy, or even isolation and have an unparalleled quality of natural realism.

Wyeth was born in 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the son of the noted illustrator, N.C. Wyeth. Because of poor health as a child, Wyeth was home-schooled by his parents, where he learned his craft first hand from his father. Growing up in an artistic household, Wyeth showed a fascination with art from an early age that was complemented by his vivid imagination and excellent memory.

Wyeth's father recognized his son's obvious raw talent and taught him the basics of traditional academic drawing. Wyeth began painting watercolor studies of the rocky seacoast near the family's summer home in Maine. He favored the use of watercolor and egg tempera using a "dry brush" method, and mixed his own pigments to create his distinctive subdued palette, often using shades of brown and grey.

Wyeth has said: "With watercolor, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolor perfectly expresses the free side of my nature."

Wyeth was most interested in painting the rural life and geography of both Pennsylvania and Maine. His work is sometimes described as realistic and unsentimental (Master Bedroom; Ground Hog Day) or nostalgic and austere (The Academy) or hauntingly secret (Christina's World) but his paintings also evoke a sense of quiet reflection on the beauty of nature.

In 1943, he gained national recognition when The Saturday Evening Post used his painting on its cover. In 1967, his show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York broke the museum's attendance record, and in 1987, the Museum of Modern Art featured Wyeth in its first major show of a living artist.

Wyeth's images appeal to serious collectors, casual enthusiasts, and the general public and he has become one of the most widely honored living artists of our time.

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