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Some 40 other firms have jumped into a market that now amounts to several hundred million dollars annually. Kenton Corp. began its Georg Jensen porcelain series by offering plates painted with an Andrew Wyeth winter scene. A limited edition of 12,500 plates cost $50 each; a "super-limited" edition of 275 numbered and signed pieces went for $350 each. Says Ralph Destino, president of Kenton's wholesale division: "I can sell a nice dinner plate for $5, but if I take off the rose pattern and put on a Wyeth painting, I can sell...
...exhibition's view of New England is not particularly reminiscent of the New England we have come to know through the eyes of such visonaries as Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth or John Singer Sargent--nor through the commercial goo oozed out by company calendars or your local chamber of commerce. The DeCordova's view is new and refreshing. You will look in vain for the Vermont covered bridge, the red barns, weathered clabbard and punctuating steeple, the gulls on the wing and boats at dock (probably Rockport). You will even have to search for the Maine lobsterman, the Vermont farmer...
...Andrew Wyeth, D.F.A., artist...
Will Painter Andrew Wyeth play Gilbert Stuart to Richard Nixon's George Washington? Yes, said Wyeth, he had been asked to paint the President's formal portrait. No, said a White House spokesman, no decision had been made. Well, said Wyeth, "I'll stick to painting weeds in Brandywine Valley." Wait, said Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "Wyeth is the man President Nixon would like to do his portrait when the time comes." But the time will not come while Nixon is in office. "There is nothing I despise more than having to sit for a formal...
...incredibly successful phenomenon of Andrew Wyeth, "an indifferent painter" exemplifies to Mr. Feild the public ignorance. With "no sense for color or pattern." Wyeth has grown rich on a "trick idea --that of recalling the old America." "He knows that if he painted a terrible tumble-down outhouse with a broken toilet seat and called it 'Those Were the Days' people would break down and sob before...