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...More power to Andrew Wyeth [TIME, July 16]. I am so sick and tired of seeing things in your magazine called "Art"-things that look like nightmares! . . . RUTH WHITFIELD Greensboro...
Breathing Hill. By 24, Wyeth was on the road to fame. His draftsmanship was skillful and his watercolor landscapes (which look thin and sloppy compared with his later work) had been exhibited and sold out more than once in Manhattan. More important, he had found and married a striking brunette named Betsy James, the daughter of a summer neighbor, who had made up her mind to be a helpful wife. They built a summer place at Gushing, near Port Clyde, took over an old schoolhouse in Chadds Ford for winter living...
Useful Yolk. Wyeth's sister Henriette (herself a portraitist) had married Painter Peter Hurd-a fast friend of Andy's. Together Peter and Andy explored the meticulous egg-tempera technique, painting with small brushes on panels, which suits them both perfectly. The technique was standard during the Renaissance, and Wyeth says that "so much hokum has been written about it you feel you have to be a chemist to start on a picture." Wyeth's method is simple: for each day's work he mixes the yolk of one egg with a little distilled water, makes...
...great advantage of egg-tempera is its precision. Thin and fast-drying, it permits none of the slick tricks that oil does, but is fine for detail work and for unobtrusively creating a sense of light. The sky in Wyeth's Young America, for example, has more air than paint about...
Young America took six months to paint. Wyeth got the idea for it when he saw a Chadds Ford boy coming down the street on a shiny new bicycle covered with gadgets. "Somehow he seemed to express a great deal about America," says Andy. "I thought to myself, 'Now he thinks his bicycle is wonderful, but in a year he'll earn enough to buy himself a car.' I was struck by the freedom he represented-by distances in this country, the plains of the Little Bighorn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other...