The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, a converted 19th century grist mill, includes hundreds of works by three generations of Wyeths. “He highly valued the natural world, the historical objects of this world as they exist in the present, and strong-willed people.”Ī Wyeth retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006 drew more than 175,000 visitors in 151/2 weeks, the highest-ever attendance at the museum for a living artist. “He was a man of extraordinary perception, and that perception was found in his thousands of images – many, many of them iconic,” Duff said Friday in an interview. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth gained wealth, acclaim and tremendous popularity on his own, but he chafed under criticism from some experts who regarded him as a facile realist, not an artist but merely an illustrator. The son of famed painter and book illustrator N.C. Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Jim Duff, director of the Brandywine River Museum. PHILADELPHIA – Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as “Christina’s World” died early Friday.
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