The Helga paintings, as they came to be called, all depicted a single subject: Helga Testorf. Testorf opens up about her unique relationship with Wyeth for the first time in Jesse Brass’s moving ...

The woman who was the subject of 240 secret paintings by Andrew Wyeth has been identified by neighbors as Helga Testorf, who lives near the artist’s home. Mrs. Testorf, a middle-aged mother of ...

He secretly created more than 240 paintings and drawings of his muse, Helga Testorf, over the course of 15 years. And she rose through the notoriously male-dominated art world in New York City to ...

He stands beside one of his paintings of Helga Testorf at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1987. (AP Photo/J Scott Applewhite, File) By Richard Speer | For The Oregonian/OregonLive ...

Thirty years have passed since one of the splashiest publicity coups ever made by a painter, when Andrew Wyeth’s stash of drawings and paintings of model Helga Testorf hit the covers of Time and ...

Wyeth is best known for meticulous realist masterpieces like “Christina’s World,” and his hundreds of long-secret intimate paintings ... neighbor Helga Testorf, whose blockbuster revelation ...

Besides the land, the hill, the pond, and the structures, the most important subjects in the paintings are the Kuerners, Karl and Anna, German immigrants; the afore-mentioned Helga Testorf ...

Betsy Wyeth, the wife of the artist Andrew Wyeth, said this week that when she said her husband’s paintings of the ... was identified last week as Helga Testorf, a mother of four and a resident ...

Helga Testorf. But for some, the real shock is happening right now. The American master painter left thousands of never-seen paintings upon his death, Many were unlike anything he’d ever shown ...

Weymouth hid a stash of Wyeth’s secret portraits of his neighbor Helga Testorf. The works, many of them nudes, stunned the art world in 1986 when Wyeth revealed the existence of 240 paintings ...

Weymouth hid a stash of Wyeth's secret portraits of his neighbor Helga Testorf. The works, many of them nudes, stunned the art world in 1986 when Wyeth revealed the existence of 240 paintings ...