Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyons dodges crosstown traffic en route to The Ground Floor, where he pauses with Producer Joe Levine. "What about the Andy Wyeth show at the White House?" Lyons wants to know. "How many paintings have you got in?" Levine doesn't want to discuss it-"Don't want to blow my invitation." Says Lyons: "I have my own sources." Levine: "Who do you know at the White House, the President?" Lyons: "Exactly...
...other artist has been so honored. Beyond all precedent, Richard Nixon is giving Painter Andrew Wyeth a one-man show in the nation's grandest gallery-the White House. To celebrate the event, Nixon is holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House...
...Wyeth? The two men have long been mutual admirers. But Wyeth has been a favorite of Presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson, and John F. Kennedy picked him as the first painter to receive the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked...