Saturday, January 17, 2009

Andrew Wyeth, Realist and Lightning Rod, Dies at 91

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists, and a painter whose precise, realist views of a harsh rural life became emblems of national culture and incited endless debates about the nature of modern art, died on Friday at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa. He was 91.

"Winter" - 1946

"Christian's World" - 1948

"Wind from the Sea" - 1947

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