![]() ![]() Although some critics have disparaged Wyeth’s work as being prosaic, he is still considered by most to be one of the great masters of American painting. Typical of Wyeth’s work, it displays a heavily charged atmosphere that has been the subject of much interpretation. She is shown in a field in the process of pulling herself back to her Maine farmhouse. It depicts the artist’s friend Christina Olson, whose body had been ravaged by polio, leaving her unable to walk, and, instead, have to drag herself with her arms. Wyeth gained widespread acclaim when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased what is widely considered his most famous painting Christina’s World, 1948, in 1949. As his technique developed, Wyeth began to increasingly use tempera in addition to watercolor, a technique that has been credited with the severe, bleak, and even nostalgic atmosphere present within much his work. Wyeth showed an early aptitude for painting, and was given his first solo exhibition by the Macbeth Gallery in New York City in 1937 at the age of twenty showing mostly works done in watercolor on paper, the show sold out. The Wyeth family alternated their time between Chadds Ford and the area of Cushing, Maine, and both locales feature prominently throughout the artist’s oeuvre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both son and pupil to his father, the successful illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth, he began studying art at a young age, as poor childhood health necessitated that he be educated at home. Andrew Wyeth was born on Jin Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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