Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...
Agassiz Station in the town of Harvard will also hold open house during the first three days of this week. Visitors will be shown the new 60-foot Agassiz radio telescope and the 61-inch Wyeth Reflector...
...ANDREW WYETH Chadds Ford...
...work progressed, Wyeth suddenly realized that the sea shell set by chance at the foot of the bed was in fact symbolic of his subject. The nautilus builds additional "chambers" on its shell as it matures; so, he felt, Mrs. James "had built another room on the series of rooms that is her life." The painting gives substance to a Wyeth principle: "So many artists tell me they reached the bottom of realism too fast. They reached the depth of their own emotions, but not of the object. What the subject means is the important thing...
...Going on view next week at the Delaware Art Center, in a show sponsored by the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, are more than 50 Wyeth works. For Wyeth, whose winter painting quarters are only eight miles from Wilmington, in a nine-room remodeled schoolhouse at Chadds Ford, Pa., the show is a triumphant homecoming: he exhibited his first professional work there in one of the society's annual shows when...