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.

The Wyeth family famously has ties to Maine. Andrew Wyeth painted his 1948 masterpiece “Christina’s World” in nearby Cushing. His grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, had a home in Port Clyde.

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 ...

After serving as a machine gunner for Germany in World War I, Karl Kuerner Sr. became a sheep herder. He immigrated to the United States in 1923, and his wife and daughter followed him over in 1925. A ...

Andrew Wyeth must have drawn the Kuerner Farm a thousand times over 70 years, contemplating a scene less than two miles from his childhood home, writes Adam Clair for The Philadelphia Inquirer. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty Wyeth paintings from the estate of one of L.L. Bean's granddaughters are set to go up for auction Tuesday.