7/7/2023 0 Comments Andrew wyeth artist![]() ![]() ![]() In 1977, when the art historian Robert Rosenblum was asked to name the most overrated and underrated American artists, he nominated Andrew Wyeth for both categories. ![]() Over the course of his life and into his death, his reputation has weathered a whiplash of ups and downs and polarized opinion. It’s an opinion I still hold, though I’m aware that many others don’t share it. But they were also imbued with a powerful range of emotions: loneliness, the burdens of the past, the fragility of physical things, the struggle against a harsh climate and barren soil.Īfter this first encounter, I became a true believer in Wyeth’s work. Yes, his drawings, watercolors and paintings seemed to capture the ramshackle character of New England with perfect accuracy. While giants like Picasso painted a world of artistic contrivance, Wyeth seemed to directly confront real life with an immediacy that I hadn’t encountered before. I vividly recall my first encounter with Andrew Wyeth’s art when I was 14 years old, in the dingy galleries of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. ![]()
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