One
Nation : Patriots and Pirates Portrayed
by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth
Andrew
Wyeth : Close Friends
by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth (Introduction)
Book Description:
Generally regarded by as "America's Painter," realist Andrew Wyeth
is perhaps the most well know of the artistic Wyeth family dynasty which
includes his father N. C. Wyeth, sister Henriette Hurd, and son Jamie Wyeth.
Although most recent explorations of this artist have focused on his family
and on the Helga pictures, this unique publication chronicles seven decades
of an under-appreciated yet historically relevant aspect of his relationship
to home and community. Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends is the first critical
look at a significant body of paintings and works on paper depicting Wyeth's
African-American friends and neighbors in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a
quaint village on the Brandywine River where he has lived since birth.
Beginning in the 1930s, many of Wyeth's African-American neighbors served
as his models both in and out of the studio. Images of over 20 individuals
are included, as well as depictions of their homes, farms, and meeting
places. Wyeth's own words annotate the reproductions of his paintings and
drawings and offer a rare glimpse into the mind of this truly individual
artist. In her brief introduction, the artist's wife and collaborator,
Betsy James Wyeth, recounts her arrival in Chadds Ford as a young bride
and her immediate connection to the community she found there.
Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends includes over 100 color reproductions of
major tempera and watercolor paintings and numerous black and white images
of graphite drawings. Works reproduced are drawn from public and private
collections, with a large number from the personal collection of the Wyeths.
In addition to a foreword by museum director R. Andrew Maass, the book
includes family photographs and facsimiles of personal correspondence.
(Hardcover - April 2001)
Andrew
Wyeth : Autobiography
by Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hoving (Introduction)
(Hardcover - September 1995)
Andrew
Wyeth : A Secret Life
by Richard Meryman
(Paperback - May 1998)
Andrew
Wyeth (First Impressions Series)
by Richard Meryman
(Hardcover - May 1991)
Arundel
by Kenneth Roberts, N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
Paperback - 496 pages Reprint edition (July 1995)
Down East Books; ISBN: 0892723645
The
Red Keep : A Story of Burgundy in 1165 (Adventure Library (Warsaw,
N.D.).)
by Allen French, Andrew Wyeth (Illustrator)
(Paperback - August 1997)
Lost
Baron
by Allen French, Andrew Wyeth (Illustrator)
(Paperback - February 2001)
Visions
of Adventure: N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists
by John Edward Dell (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
Capturing
Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer
by Pamela J. Belanger (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - April 2002)
Christina
Olson: Her World Beyond the Canvas
by Jean Olson Brooks, Deborah Dalfonso
Paperback - 96 pages 1 edition (July 1998)
Down East Books; ISBN: 0892724048
The
Wondrous Strange : The Wyeth Tradition
by N.C.
Wyeth, Jamie
Wyeth, Andrew
Wyeth
Demonic eyes shining out of a shadowy tree. A blind man staggering
through a moonlit landscape. Disembodied, dark hands rising out of snow.
A feral dog with one blue eye. Ambiguous shadows harboring human shapes.
These are but a few of the eerie images in this mesmerizing, wondrous book.
There are four artists represented here: three generations of Wyeth men--N.C.,
Andrew, and James--and Howard Pyle, artistically speaking the father of
them all. An essay on each artist precedes a generous selection of stunning,
full-size, color plates of his work; the essay on Andrew is written by
his wife, Betsy. It is Betsy who originally conceived of the exhibition
that led to the book. David Michaelis, author of a new biography of N.C.,
writes, "The intensity of her relationship with all three Wyeths makes
her the true linking figure in what has too often been simplified as a
male succession."
The simple chronological ordering of the book, from Pyle to his student
N.C. Wyeth, to N.C.'s son Andrew, to Andrew's son James, turns out to have
a peculiar power. The gaudy, tricky, glorious too-muchness of both Pyle
and James make illustrational bookends around the more subtly drawn histrionics
of N.C. and Andrew. It might come as a surprise to fans of Andrew's uniquely
sublime naturalistic gifts that he possesses an uncanny streak of surrealism,
which he couches in his otherwise orderly realism. The book as a whole
should give hours and hours of pleasure to Pyle and Wyeth fans of all persuasions
and generations. --Peggy Moorman
Hardcover from Bulfinch
Book Published: 01 September, 1998 |
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