“Wyeth gave America a prim and flinty view of Puritan rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders.” – The New York Times

Cristina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth’s artwork is a sharp contrast to the then widely popular movement of abstract art. Painting at a time with contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and the infamous Andy Warhol, his style was aptly out of place. But, that is often the exact sentiment that makes his work so enduring.

Rural scenes inspired by his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania set Wyeth apart from other Modernist artist of the time. Often refered to as “a painter of the people” his work has also “sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art (NYT).”

Master Bedroom by Andrew Wyeth

The muted and somewhat bleak representations of familiar scenes stirs a sense of wonder and mystery as you view Wyeth’s paintings. The juxtaposition between common, usually inviting familial scenes and the emptiness and isolation creates the sense of a displacement that Wyeth often experienced in his own artistic life.

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