I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and don’t have THAT many things to take pride in regarding my hometown, save for for tax-free shopping, Joe Biden…and George Thorogood. At any rate, the Wyeth family, and their close associations with Delaware and the surrounding area, are a point of pride for me. This past August on a trip home I visited the Brandwyine River Museum which has an exceptional collection of paintings by the Wyeths.
Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies at 91
One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World” became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” or Whistler’s portrait of his mother or Emmanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Wyeth said he thought the work was “a complete flat tire” when he sent originally it off to the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan in 1948. The Museum of Modern Art bought it for $1,800.
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