Word: wyeth
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...Leaning on the walls and lying all over shelves are sketches that Mr. Wyeth has made. He has sketches in color which make small pieces of the picture. When he sits down to work on the painting he has to fit the pieces together in his mind. The hardest part is just going on and on and on to finish the job after you're over the excitement of suddenly knowing what you want to do and the fast sketches...
...Like anyone else returning from work Mr. Wyeth changes out of his old paint-spattered pants when he gets in the house. When he returns from the studio he always has paint on himself too. One place is really very noticeable -a long streak on his lower lip. That comes from wiping the extra paint off his brush; since his lip is handy, he makes...
...Dynasty of Art. The name Wyeth is familiar to almost every kid who ever had a library card, because it belongs to the most ambitious American art dynasty since the 18th century Philadelphia painter Charles Willson Peale named his children Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphaelle and Titian and brought two of them up to join a raft of relatives in the family trade. The Wyeth dynasty was founded when Newell Converse Wyeth went in 1903 from Massachusetts to Wilmington, Del., to study painting with the scholarly illustrator Howard Pyle. Often Pyle and his favorite pupil would journey the twelve miles...
Method Painting. Last of his father's five children, Andrew Wyeth was born into a virtual factory of fantasy. N.C. spouted Shakespeare as he dosed his children with castor oil, encouraged them to set up toy theaters all over the house, and persuaded them well up into their teens that Santa Claus did indeed exist. But his greatest gift was teaching his brood how to re-create drama, and a little art colony sprang up by the Brandywine...
...idyl ended on an October morning in 1945: N.C. was killed by a train that struck his station wagon in Chadds Ford. Wyeth took his father's death harder than any of the others in the family. Intimations of mortality clouded the clear sky of fantasy. He had never painted his father. Three years after N.C.'s death, Wyeth painted Karl, a stern portrait of his neighbor Karl Kuerner, shown in his attic room. Above Karl's head are two meat hooks, like falcon's claws, thrust down from the ceiling. Says Wyeth: "It was really...