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...sometimes seems as if the U.S. art world will tear itself apart with all its cliques and cults, but there is one artist whose extraordinary vision keeps him well above the battle. Painter Andrew Wyeth is not influenced by other artists' work; he rarely visits galleries, is wholly unaffected by "trends." He is in a sense one of the most isolated of America's top artists, yet his appeal is universal. Whether realists or abstractionists, artists admire him; he casts a spell over layman and sophisticate alike. His paintings, so static at first glance, are charged with emotion...
...most costly item in the collection is Andrew Wyeth's The Scarecrow, which Nordness got at the bargain price of $50,000. Wyeth, who paints only two pictures a year, currently commands twice that figure, and his 1962 output had already been spoken for. By a lucky break, the 1947 Scarecrow turned up at a dealer...
Says Nordness: "Wyeth is painting today just as he did then; so The Scarecrow is an honest representation of his present style. I let this criterion be my guide on all the pre-1959 paintings by other artists I bought." New Comprehensibility. What kind of impact will "Art: USA: Now" have in Europe? The best prediction can be made by comparing the new show to a big collection called "The New American Painting" which toured Europe in 1958 under the sponsorship of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. By then, the U.S. abstract-expressionist movement...
Pause Between a Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists...
...Andrew Wyeth...