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Many thanks for the wonderfully succinct article on Artist Andrew Wyeth [Nov. 2]. His statements-so direct and forceful-are unchallengeable...
Whatever the price paid for a Wyeth, the collector gets his money's worth...
...best-known paintings Wyeth ever did is Christina's World, in which a crippled woman is shown dragging herself up a hillside to a house on top. Christina was the same Miss Olson (see color) that Wyeth painted four years later in 1952. It is a striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength...
...other hands, Wyeth's peeling walls, the desolate farms, the long passageways of decaying houses, the interiors seen in unusual perspective, could have become merely stagy. But in Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts recently paid $58,000 for Wyeth's That Gentleman...