![]() ![]() Shown in public for the first time in 1986, the entire series was bought by a private collector. ![]() ![]() A second series, executed from 1971 to 1985, features nude studies of his model Helga Testorf. Other images suggest the silence and vast expanses of the American landscape, touched by small signs of life such as the tracks of a bird, or a figure walking in the fields. The pictures show the families going about their daily lives. A series of paintings executed from 1948 to 1979 chronicles the Kuerner family of Pennsylvania, and the Olsons of Maine, in over 200 canvases. His somewhat desolate landscapes are depicted from often unexpected angles, and feature self-consciously nostalgic or lonely figures. "His paintings are solidly traditionalist, inspired almost exclusively by the life and landscapes of Pennsylvania, where he spent his winters at Chadds Ford, and his summers at his home in Cushing, Maine. ![]() He lived and worked in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He became a member of the American Watercolor Society in 1940, and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. He never travelled to Europe, and did not attend art school. He suffered from a nervous temperament as a child, and was taught at home by his father and a series of tutors, from 1923 to 1929. "Andrew Wyeth was the youngest of the five children of Newell Convers Wyeth. ![]()
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