Generally regarded as "America's Painter," realist Andrew Wyeth is perhaps the most well known of the artistic Wyeth family dynasty, which includes his father N.C. Wyeth, sister Henriette Hurd, and son Jamie Wyeth. Although most recent explorations of this artist have focused on his family and on the Helga pictures, this unique publication chronicles seven decades of an underappreciated yet historically relevant aspect of his relationship to home and community. Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends is the first critical look at a significant body of paintings and works on paper depicting Wyeth's African-American friends and neighbors in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a quaint village on the Brandywine River, where he has lived since birth. Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends includes over 100 color reproductions of major tempera and watercolor paintings and numerous black-and-white images of graphite drawings. Works reproduced are drawn from public and private collections, with a large number from the personal collection of the Wyeths. In addition to a foreword by Museum Director R. Andrew Maass, the book includes family photographs and facsimiles of personal correspondence.

Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends

Arts & Photography

Wyeth, Andrew

Wyeth, Betsy

History & Criticism

Missippippi Museum Art

Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection

This book presents drawings that Andrew Wyeth retained for his own collection -- many preliminary to well-known paintings. Created over more than five decades, from 1951 to 2005, they range from portraits of family members and friends to vibrant depictions of objects, landscapes, and buildings in and around the artist's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. These works reflect the insight, emotion, and technique that are uniquely his. They demonstrate Wyeth's extraordinary skill as a draftsman and the accuracy with which he sees light and dark, enabling him to model forms while suggesting the very substance and texture of what he sees. "I have always been powerfully affected by Andrew Wyeth's drawings and studies -- particularly those studies that do not attempt to cover the whole surface of the paper but instead focus on a few elements, so that the image seems to emerge magically from the empty white background, rather like a photograph that we observe in the process of development." -- Henry Adams

ADAMS, HENRY

Brandywine River Museum

Helga Pictures

Wilmerding, J.

Abrams

Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth

A profusely illustrated volume, the textual complement to a forthcoming exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, follows the development of Andrew Wyeth's landscape painting in critical essays and color reproductions of more than 125 works. 30,000 first printing.

Weinberg, Adam D.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Venn, Beth

Kammen, Michael G.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

A comprehensive edition of the artist's work reproduces 138 paintings, including Wyeth's most recognized works, along with his comments about each one and reflections on his life

Andrew Wyeth, Autobiography

Individual Artists

Bulfinch Pr

An enchanting collection of fantastical and colorful paintings by four American Realism painters--Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Wyeth's son and grandson--examines the relationship among these artists and suggests how illustration and the fine arts intersect in their work. 12,500 first printing.

Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition

Wyeth, Jamie

Wyeth, N.C.

PYLE, HOWARD

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Bulfinch

In the country of Burgundy, the Sauval brothers have begun to terrorize the surrounding lands in an attempt to bring the area under their control. They raid the Red Keep, in hope of gaining it for themselves, only to be thwarted by Sir Roger and young Conan. Now they plot anew to steal the Keep from its rightful owner, Lady Anne. She, with Conan and her loyal followers, sets out to bring justice upon the evil brothers. An action-filled tale with the authentic flavor of the twelfth century, by the author of The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow and The Lost Baron. Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. Cover art by N.C. Wyeth.

The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in 1165 (Adventure Library (Warsaw, N.D.).)

French, Allen

Children's Books

Bethlehem Books

In the year 1200 in Cornwall, thirteen-year-old Martin's first day as page and squire to Baron Eric of Less Mortain is also his last when the Baron mysteriously disappears and his visiting distant relative and heir, the moody Sir Basil, takes charge of the castle.

Lost Baron: A Story of England in the Year 1200 (Adventure Library (Warsaw, N.D.).)

Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures: A Portfolio of Six Works: Nude Studies

Te Neues Publishing Company

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