Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect

I recommend seeing this Andrew Wyeth Retrospect at the Brandywine River Museum of Art which closes next weekend 9/17/17. I went the first week in July and kept meaning to post these pictures, but this entire summer has been more fleeting than any I remember.

I only ever knew fragments about the entire clan of PA Wyeth painters, so it was interesting to find out more details. I never even knew how many of Andrew Wyeth subjects were people of color. But what fascinated me most was the affair he carried on for 15 years resulting in 240 paintings of Helga Testorf, a neighbor of Wyeth’s in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania … “I have to become enamored. Smitten. That’s what happened when I saw Helga – all her German qualities, her strong, determined stride, that Loden coat, the braided blond hair” – Andrew Wyeth

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