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This article is about a person who has recently died. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person's death and surrounding events, may change rapidly as more facts become known. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Andrew Wyeth as he received the National Medal of Arts in 2007. Born July 12, 1917(1917-07-12) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States Died January 16, 2009 (aged 91) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States Occupation Realist painter Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009)[1] was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working mainly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century, and was sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People", due to his work's popularity with the American public. He was the son of the illustrator and artist N. C. Wyeth, and the brother of inventor Nathaniel Wyeth and artist Henriette Wyeth Hurd, and the father of artist Jamie Wyeth and Nicholas Wyeth. In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him; both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. One of the most well-known images in 20th century American art is his painting, Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Contents [hide] 1 Childhood/Early career 2 Father's death, 1940s Childhood/Early career Andrew Newell Wyeth was the youngest of the five children of Newell Convers Wyeth and his wife Carolyn Bockius Wyeth. He was home-tutored because of his frail health, and learned art from his father, who was also responsible for his son's love of rural landscapes, sense of romance, and a feeling for Wyeth family history and artistic traditions.[2] Wyeth started drawing at a young age, and with his father’s guidance, he mastered figure study and watercolor, and later learned egg tempera from brother-in-law Peter Hurd. He studied art history on his own, admiring many masters of Renaissance and American painting, especially Winslow Homer.[3] Like his father, he read and appreciated the poetry of Frost and Thoreau and studied their relationship with nature. Music and movies also heightened his artistic sensitivity. In 1937 at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City. The entire inventory of paintings sold out, and his life path was certain. His style was different from his father’s—more spare, more ”dry”, and more limited in color range. He stated his belief that “the great danger of the Pyle school is | ||||
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