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Andrew Wyeth : in retrospect / Patricia Junker, Audrey Lewis ; with Henry Adams, Karen Baumgartner, Christopher B. Crosman, Mary Adam Landa, Christine B. Podmaniczky, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Joyce Hill Stoner, Shuji Takahashi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania] : Seattle : New Haven : Brandywine River Museum of Art ; Seattle Art Museum ; Yale University Press, [2017]Description: 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300223958
  • 0300223951
Uniform titles:
  • Andrew Wyeth (2017)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Marking Time, 1917-1949 -- Generations, 1950-1967 -- Couples, 1968-1988 -- Reflection, 1989-2009.
Summary: "Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 759.13 A563 Available 33111008780328
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An insightful and essential new survey of Wyeth's entire career, situating the milestones of his art within the trajectory of 20th-century American life

This major retrospective catalogue explores the impact of time and place on the work of beloved American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009). While previous publications have mainly analyzed Wyeth's work thematically, this publication places him fully in the context of the long 20th century, tracing his creative development from World War I through the new millennium.

Published to coincide with the centenary of Wyeth's birth, the book looks at four major chronological periods in the artist's career: Wyeth as a product of the interwar years, when he started to form his own "war memories" through military props and documentary photography he discovered in his father's art studio; the change from his "theatrical" pictures of the 1940s to his own visceral responses to the landscape around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his family's home in Mai≠ his sudden turn, in 1968, into the realm of erotic art, including a completely new assessment of Wyeth's "Helga pictures"--a series of secret, nude depictions of his neighbor Helga Testorf--within his career as a who≤ and his late, self-reflective works, which includes the discussion of his previously unknown painting entitled Goodbye , now believed to be Wyeth's last work.

"Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marking Time, 1917-1949 -- Generations, 1950-1967 -- Couples, 1968-1988 -- Reflection, 1989-2009.

"Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect" : June 24-September 17, 2017, Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States.

"Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect" : October 19, 2017-January 15, 2018, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, United States.

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