“If there is such a thing as a purely American tradition in Art, it is represented at its best in the straightforward canvases of Andrew Wyeth.” — LIFE magazine, May 17, 1948 By the time he ...

Andrew Wyeth, “Young Bull,” 1960. Drybrush watercolor. (Margery Lewis Smith/Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Wyeth/Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society/Brandywine Museum of Art ...

it’s possible to see artists like Andrew Wyeth afresh. Wyeth painted real things, real people. He was not always great. But amid the abstract and minimalist drone that dominates most museum ...

Editor's Note, January 16, 2009: In the wake of Andrew Wyeth's death at the age of 91, Smithsonian magazine recalls the 2006 major retrospective of Wyeth's work and the ongoing controversy over ...

WATERVILLE, Maine — In the fall of 1945, the famed illustrator N.C. Wyeth was killed when his station wagon collided with an oncoming train. In the months that followed, his son Andrew Wyeth ...