3 Formal Analysis: A Brief Compositional Overview.2.1 Contextual Analysis: A Brief Socio-Historical Overview.2 Christina’s World (1948) by Andrew Wyeth in Context.1 Artist Abstract: Who Was Andrew Wyeth?.It was during the family's annual summer vacations in Port Clyde, Maine, that Andrew was able to experiment with other media to find his own artistic voice,' according to a biography in the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. Wyeth, formally studied art with his father as a teen, 'drawing in charcoal and painting in oils, the media of choice for N.C. Wyeth, the youngest child of painter N.C. 'His 'Helga' pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986,' the InfoPlease biography says. The painting, displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been regarded as Wyeth's most popular. 'Christina's World,' painted in 1948, shows a disabled Maine neighbor who drags herself through a field toward her house in the distance. His main subjects were the places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine. Wyeth, who lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine, 'has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937,' according to a biography in InfoPlease. 'On behalf of the American people, Laura and I offer our sincere condolences to Betsy and the Wyeth family.' Wyeth captured America in his paintings of his native Pennsylvania and Maine,' Bush said. Two years earlier, Wyeth and his wife, Betsy, presented to the White House his painting 'Jupiter,' which is displayed in the residence's family sitting room.īush issued a statement Friday saying that he and first lady Laura Bush 'deeply mourn' the death of Wyatt. In 2007, President Bush awarded Wyeth the National Medal of Arts in recognition of his lifetime achievement and contribution to American arts and culture. Wyeth received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and President Nixon sponsored an exhibition of Wyeth's paintings at the White House. He was widely celebrated inside and outside of the art world. The acclaimed artist painted landscapes and figure subjects and worked mostly in tempera and watercolor. Wyeth, 91, died in his sleep Thursday night at his home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to Lora Englehart, public relations coordinator for the museum.

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