Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including a full-scale simulation of the Sea of Tranquility landing site of the Apollo 11 moon shot. American life on earth will be covered by a series of exhibits of architecture, folk art, and a review of the realistic tradition in U.S. painting, from Gilbert Stuart to Andrew Wyeth. A mixed-media sports exhibit will include memorabilia of baseball's greats. The U.S. avant-garde will be represented by the results of an art and technology program; twenty artists including Claes Oldenburg and Tony Smith have been working for the past year with industrial plants to see what...
...weather-beaten, century-old farmhouse overlooking the St. George River near Gushing, Me., is one of the most familiar structures in America. Called "the Olson farm," it stands bleak and solitary above a brown-grass hillside in Andrew Wyeth's acclaimed and much reproduced painting, Christina's World. Now the house belongs to Hollywood Producer Joe Levine (Two Women, Divorce-Italian Style), who owns 13 Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign...
...inadequacies and weaknesses just blare out at you," complained the young artist as he viewed his own one-man show at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me. Jamie Wyeth, 23, Andrew's talented and modest son, had hitched a ride with a lobsterman from his home on Monhegan Island, and almost wished he hadn't come. Even his 1967 portrait of the late John F. Kennedy was disappointing in retrospect. "I'm terribly unsatisfied with it," said Jamie, who never saw J.F.K. in the flesh and completed the portrait from photographs and extensive sketches of the President...
...Cover: Oil on canvas by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 48, a Mexican-born Texan and onetime protege of Peter Hurd and Andrew Wyeth, who makes his first appearance in TIME...
...bleak, now mellow autumnal world of America's most popular painter presented in lovingly printed reproductions. Better than a Wyeth show at a museum, partly because nobody's head gets in the way, partly because a brief, unassuming but fondly skillful text weaves together the man and his work...