This image provided by Christie's shows N.C. Wyeth's 1938 "Norry Seavey Hauling Traps Off Blubber Island," an oil on Masonite that is estimated to fetch $300,000-500,000 when it will be sold at ...

Although some critics deride his art as drab and kitschy, Andrew Wyeth’s melancholy paintings were praised by others as profound reflections of 20th century alienation and existentialism.

Andrew's youngest son, Jamie, lives in a lighthouse in Maine filled with paints, canvases and the creations of the latest generations of Wyeths. He's proud that art is simply in the Wyeth DNA.