Word: wyeth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Andrew Wyeth. 4. Peter Hurd...
...conservative academicians, the name Wyeth looked good, and always had. Young Andrew Wyeth's watercolors lacked the fine, romantic lunge which had made his father, the late N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, a top U.S. illustrator of children's books. But they were even more disarmingly realistic than N.C.'s paintings had been. Last week the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (and the $1,000 which goes with it) to Andrew Wyeth. The Academy makes its award to a painter only once every five...
When I took the late N. C. Wyeth into the scrub country to begin his paintings for a special edition of The Yearling, he gasped at the "composed landscapes" of the "piercing green palm fronds" and said: "This is fantastic. An artist has only to copy this, and then it will not be believed." Incidentally, the most effective "shots" in the film were exact reproductions of his paintings. And often, particularly at twilight, I look at the "dusty good earth" and it is definitely lavender, or mauve, sometimes actually purple...
...older, big, burly "N.C." concentrated on painting with studied care everyday landscapes and people. They sold well; one of them last year was voted best-in-the-show by gallery-goers at Washington's biennial Corcoran show. In October, Wyeth and a grandson, riding in a station wagon, were struck and killed by a train...
...Wilmington last week a memorial exhibition of 66 Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...