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Andrew Wyeth

(1917-2009) Andrew was born into a family of artists in the year 1917 and was trained by his father from an early age. At twenty Wyeth sold out his first one-man show at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. The same thing happened two years later. His success as a young artist and the cultivation and training he received from his father paid off. Many deem him the most successful American painter of his generation. His whole life from infancy was spent in the countryside of Maine and Pennsylvania, and these states were the central inspirations for his art. The country life pervades his works: the cycle of seasons, nature, people, farmhouses, barns, tools, wagons and plows all make their way into Wyeth's life and art. The old fieldstone buildings of Pennsylvania, the unpainted wooden houses of New England, the constant saltiness, sea and fog of Maine unite under Wyeth's brush. Whatever theme chosen, Wyeth's pieces contain a simplicity, concentrating on a single image. Andrew Wyeth's works go against the grain of our time with naturalistic paintings instead of abstractions. His work is personal and poetic, his sense of detail microscopic and his textures flawless.

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