Four years later, Wyeth was included in “The Twentieth International Exhibition of Watercolors” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Wyeth’s celebrated artwork was also included in the “American Realists and Magic Realists” exhibit hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1943.  Beginning in the late 1940’s Wyeth’s work became the premier exhibit at museums including “Andrew Wyeth Watercolors” at the Seattle Art Museum, “Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth” at the Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, 

“Andrew Wyeth” at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California, “Andrew Wyeth: A Retrospective Exhibition of Temperas and Watercolors” in Cambridge, Massachussettes.

Wyeth met his wife Betsy in 1939 and proposed after only one week of knowing one another, they were married in 1940. Beautiful, unconventional, intuitive and highly intelligent, she not only managed household affairs and raised their two sons Nicholas and Jaime. In October of 1945 Andrew’s father & nephew died in a tragic train accident by the farm of their neighbor, Karl Kuerner. After that, Andrew’s work became deeper, more serious, more intense. “It gave me a reason to paint, an emotional reason,” he has said. “I think it made me.” Wyeth’s experiences and life lessons are reflected in all of his works whether in their mood and tone or in his chosen subject matter, with both literal and metaphorical representations.

Andrew Wyeth prospered in a career that has spanned seven decades, he was still painting, and overseeing the publication of his limited editions at the ripe age of 91. Andrew has been labeled “America’s painter," he is one of the most recognizable living artists because of the mythic stature he has achieved.  The realism in Wyeth’s paintings is so astoundingly accurate in detail that the textures and expressions of the models bring the viewer into his artwork with a sense that one could reach into the painting and feel his subjects. Wyeth is skilled in such varied mediums as charcoal, watercolor, dry brush, tempera and more.  From his original works he has created a select few multiple originals in order to share his genius with a wider audience.

Andrew Wyeth, a painter of remarkable poetic masterpieces, is renown for his landscapes of Maine and Pennsylvania and his beloved family and friends. His works always carry a deep intimacy and insightful realism regardless of the medium he chooses. Wyeth has produced a wealth of technically stunning paintings and drawings that have won him a tremendous popular following and earned him considerable success. Over the past fifty years the Wyeth market has been the bedrock of American art.  Like Rockwell, Andrew Wyeth’s traditional subject matter and steadfast vision has brought his genius to prominent museums and private collections around the world. 

We here at American Fine Art would like to remind you that realism is only the beginning of his method, which is so much more fantastic and artful than many realize. Much of the realism in his works is memory-based. For example, in his highly sought after Wind From the Sea Wyeth creates the almost ethereal movement of the curtains from a vision in his mind rather than using a photograph as many artists do. This technical mastery and ability to personify any object from a bucket to curtains is what makes Wyeth--Wyeth. His art borders on hyperrealism and abstraction.  Of course, Wyeth has long claimed himself to be an abstractionist. The precision with which he paints gives way to abstraction in his work, as panes of light and areas of color and shadow evolve into geometric patterns of line and form. His widely varied subjects have been appreciated for their seeming simplicity and sheer beauty, for their celebration of rural American life, and for the haunting, plaintive silence that pervades his greatest masterworks.

Whether it be a record-breaking eight figure tempera painting or a new release. His contribution to the world of art has been recorded in every notable art history book created in his time. 

Wyeth has succeeded in winning worldwide popularity, inspiring countless artists and earning some of the highest prices ever paid for the works of a living American artist. Wyeth has been honored with the most prestigious and highly regarded awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and he was the first artist ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.  Wyeth has been featured in many magazine and literary publications throughout his career including articles dedicated solely to the artist in Life Magazine in 1997 and the Smithsonian magazine in 2006.

On January 16, 2009 the world lost one of the greatest artists of all time. America’s Painter, Andrew Wyeth, passed away in his sleep a little after 4am, Wyeth was 91 years old. Wyeth had fallen ill in the recent weeks with pneumonia and his family was caring for him at home in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania.

Andrew Wyeth had said in an interview some twenty years ago that “all of my models and friends are gone.” Now he has left us just before the inauguration of what would have been the 13th Presidency he had painted through.  Although Wyeth had been a painter since childhood, he emerged on the national art scene during Roosevelt’s term in office and remained a steady force and tremendous talent through George W. Bush, over seventy years of painting America.

Only a few months ago the artist released what is now the last edition ever created by the artist, The Carry. American Fine Art is enamored with Andrew’s magical realism, the intense expressionism in his art, and the immense talent of the artist to balance realism with abstractionism.  A balance act which is quite difficult to achieve, yet Wyeth not only made it look simple…he made it beautiful, awesome in fact.  Much like Picasso, there is no artist capable of filling the shoes of this incomparable American master of painting.  We fully expect Wyeth’s following to continue to soar, this is a devastating loss for the art world.  We can all be thankful that he had 91 years to share his talents with us and the world.

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