This intimate look at Wyeth s decades-long connection to Kuerner Farm and the people there reveals not only the source of many of the artist s most deeply resonant paintings but the secrets that have given his deceptively simple art its mysterious pull on the popular imagination for generations. As Wyeth became one of the country s most celebrated artists, he continued to return to the farm, the Kuerners, and to the enigmatic Helga Testorf, creating timeless portraits from an experience of deep looking and charting a way toward unearthing from the ordinary, the extraordinary.
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"One of the most popular and celebrated American artists of the 20th century, Andrew Wyeth spent seven decades painting a particular farm in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, resulting in nearly 1,000 paintings. Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth is the first focused exhibition on this defining subject and tells the story of the connection between artist and place - one of the most enduring connections in American art." - GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD
"This book explores Wyeth's evolving relationship with the Kuerners, as well as with Karl's enigmatic caregiver Helga Testorf, whom he painted extensively between 1971 and 1985 in a series of portraits now known as the 'Helga Pictures'. It also looks at his decades-long connection to the property itself. 'I didn't think it a picturesque place,' he once said of Kuerner Farm. 'It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally.'" - CHRISTIE'S
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
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Maße
Höhe: 285 mm
Breite: 258 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-0-8478-4573-6 (9780847845736)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
William L. Coleman is the Wyeth Foundation Curator of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection and director of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Study Center at the Brandywine Museum of Art. Allison Slaby is the curator of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Karen Baumgartner is the associate collection manager of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. James Welling is a contemporary American artist and photographer.
