[...] Andrew Wyeth Passes Away At 91 « d’Arte Board (darteboard.com) – January 16, 2009This entry was posted on January 16, 2009 at 11:09 am and is filed under Art, Links, news with tags Art, Painting, Andrew Wyeth, obituary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2… [...]
My father and I just a conversation about Wyeth this morning. He had made an appointment to visit Wyeth in Pennsylvania years ago and when he arrived, Andrew’s wife pointed to Wyeth frog-marching down the road to his studio and said, “he’s too busy to see you today. Call back another time.” He was a workaholic.
He was an integral part of my upbringing. As long as I can remember our city museum (Greenville County Art Museum) was a resting place for so many of his works. I saw a large majority of them year after year in school field trips and one or two more times in later years. The works in person are so much more than any photos can ever bring out.
I feel really guilty saying that I assumed he died years ago… I wonder how his death will affect critical evaluation of his works. These things always seem to modify artists’ reception somehow, even when their work has seemingly been well digested during their lifetime.
January 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm
[...] Andrew Wyeth Passes Away At 91 « d’Arte Board (darteboard.com) – January 16, 2009This entry was posted on January 16, 2009 at 11:09 am and is filed under Art, Links, news with tags Art, Painting, Andrew Wyeth, obituary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2… [...]
January 16, 2009 at 1:39 pm
My father and I just a conversation about Wyeth this morning. He had made an appointment to visit Wyeth in Pennsylvania years ago and when he arrived, Andrew’s wife pointed to Wyeth frog-marching down the road to his studio and said, “he’s too busy to see you today. Call back another time.” He was a workaholic.
January 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm
He was an integral part of my upbringing. As long as I can remember our city museum (Greenville County Art Museum) was a resting place for so many of his works. I saw a large majority of them year after year in school field trips and one or two more times in later years. The works in person are so much more than any photos can ever bring out.
January 16, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I feel really guilty saying that I assumed he died years ago… I wonder how his death will affect critical evaluation of his works. These things always seem to modify artists’ reception somehow, even when their work has seemingly been well digested during their lifetime.