Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known to the general public as onetime U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1947-50), is proud of his Arizona heritage. In the past month, Douglas has indulged his natural pride by buying nine highly dramatic paintings of the Old West, all done in the early 1900s by Newell Convers Wyeth. Among the most picturesque is an illustration for a book called Arizona Nights, entitled "He Called Him Out and Shot Him in the Stomach." All demonstrate Wyeth's eye for action, his command of atmosphere and his passion for correct detail...
Manhattan's art market last week offered little food to such hungry-eyed faddists. Instead, the standout shows pointed up the advantage of hewing to a straight and narrow path. Two young but conservative U.S. painters, Andrew Wyeth and Jack Levine, were staging exhibitions bound to enhance their already strong reputations. They had succeeded not by any violent shift of style but by pressing along their old ways to new heights...
...ANDREW WYETH was trained by his artist father, N. C. Wyeth, whose illustrations for The Last of the Mohicans, Treasure Island and The Boy's King Arthur entranced generations of children. Less romantic in feeling than his father, young Andy mastered a calm, tidy way of painting landscapes. At 20 he had his first Manhattan show, which sold...
...been as content with his own talent as the public was, Wyeth might have remained a minor painter. But he kept expanding his capacity to picture things with ever-increasing clarity. Pennsylvania fields and farmers, Maine inlets and fishermen, old houses and musty rooms were his favorite subjects. As the clarity of his work increased, the sentimental side of Wyeth's subject matter diminished in importance. Last winter, at 35; Wyeth sat down to paint a practically empty picture. It became the hit of his exhibition at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week...
...tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait of Earth and Winter...