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Wyeth, Andrew Newell (wī`əth), 1917–, American painter, b. Chadds Ford, Pa. Wyeth's work has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937. He was trained by his father, the noted illustrator N. C. Wyeth Wyeth, Newell Convers, 1882–1945, American painter and illustrator, b. Needham, Mass., studied with Howard Pyle. Among his many well-known murals are those in the Missouri state capitol and the altar panels for the National Episcopal Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
..... Click the link for more information. . The places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine, are his principal subjects and they are portrayed in a meticulous, naturalistic style. The best-known of Wyeth's paintings, Christina's World (1948), is at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. His "Helga" pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986.

Bibliography

See his autobiography (1995); W. M. Corn, ed., The Art of Andrew Wyeth (1973); J. Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures (1987); biography by R. Meryman (1997).