Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roswell (pop. 25,000) was a sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where...
...forum is the next to the last in the series which the club has sponsored this term. Next Tuesday, Edward P. Wyeth, a Boston stockbroker, will speak on "The Stock Exchange and the Small Investor." into policy-making panels...
...Wyeth portrait of Christina took second prize at last month's Carnegie Exhibition (TIME, Oct. 25). "It looks sort of photographic," Wyeth admits. "I guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
Every blade of grass in the picture is separately painted. "Just because something is tightly done doesn't mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...
Down in Maine. Sickly as a boy, Wyeth kept close to the studio of his father, famed Illustrator N. C. Wyeth. ("Ever since I was twelve, nothing has meant anything to me except painting.") But while his father brought knights, pirates and Scottish chiefs to life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within...