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...tempera, a technique that has not been in common practice since the quattrocentro, Wyeth will retreat to his studio near the old family home where he was brought up. He hates to be watched in his studio-except by dogs and kids. The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me., has recently bought an essay by Troy Kaichen, a literate Gushing boy, who knows Wyeth well. It describes Wyeth at work...
...Dynasty of Art. The name Wyeth is familiar to almost every kid who ever had a library card, because it belongs to the most ambitious American art dynasty since the 18th century Philadelphia painter Charles Willson Peale named his children Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphaelle and Titian and brought two of them up to join a raft of relatives in the family trade. The Wyeth dynasty was founded when Newell Converse Wyeth went in 1903 from Massachusetts to Wilmington, Del., to study painting with the scholarly illustrator Howard Pyle. Often Pyle and his favorite pupil would journey the twelve miles...
...dosed his children with castor oil, encouraged them to set up toy theaters all over the house, and persuaded them well up into their teens that Santa Claus did indeed exist. But his greatest gift was teaching his brood how to re-create drama, and a little art colony sprang up by the Brandywine...
...White Company. Quite naturally, the dynasty flourished. The eldest, Henriette, a painter in her own right, is married to Painter Hurd. Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes. Sister Ann, 48, turned to music, but married one of N.C.'s students, John McCoy, and stayed on in Chadds Ford. Brother Nathaniel, 52, "drew neat little pictures inside little squares," married a niece of Howard Pyle, and quite naturally became a creative engineer in research for Du Pont in nearby Wilmington...
...next year, while he continued to study and paint with his father, they were married. When the war years came, he tried to enlist, but was decisively 4-F'ed because of crooked hip joints, which give him a gangly gait. Instead, at a time when U.S. art was at a virtual standstill, he churned out vigorous, splashy watercolors that explored flattened space, joyous color and jumpy line in such a way that they could have marked him as a nascent abstract expressionist...