Andrew Wyeth Posters, Prints, Fine Art

Christina's World Art Print

Master Bedroom Art Print

Pennsylvania Landscape Art Print

Easterly Art Print

Ground Hog Day Art Print

Around the Corner Art Print

Big Room Art Print

Ides of March Art Print

Shed Lantern Art Print

Wishbone Art Print

May Basket

Academy Art Print

Wolf Rivers

Andrew was the youngest of 5 children of N. C. and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth. He had been home schooled due to his fragile health, and studied art from his father over the long times the two spent together. Each shared the equal love for country landscape, a feel of romance, and both carried a strong sense of Wyeth family history which went back to 1645 in America. Andrew began sketching at a rather youn age, and with his father's tolerant and expert direction, he mastered figure subjects was soon working in watercolor. Afterward Andrew would learn egg tempera techniques with brother-in-law Peter Hurd. He learned art history on his own, enjoying several masters of Renaissance and American art work, particularly the straight forward Winslow Homer. Such as his father, Andrew read and valued the verse of Robert Frost and Henry David Thoreau and admired the author's kinship with nature. Music and films likewise caught the attention of the young Wyeth.

By age twenty, in 1937, Andrew held his initial one-man show of watercolors at Macbeth Gallery in New York City. All of the art works had been rapidly purchased and Wyeth's career was immeadiatly set in motion. His style was clearly unlike his father's. It was more lean, as well as more 'dry', with a restrained color range. Wyeth as well averted the drama seen in his father's work and early on expressed the opinion that it was "the great danger of the Pyle school is picture-making." He proceeded to produce a few illustrations during the earliest portion of his artistic career, which includes illustrating various books by the author Allen French, however avoided the bounds this had placed on N.C. Wyeth's artistic freedom, Andrew instead marked his own way.

During ,Wyeth wed Betsy James in 1940. In 1943 the Wyeth's bore their first child, a son they named Nicholas. A second son, son James was born to the couple three years following. Andrew painted portraits of both Jamie and Betsy, works which would become familiar to the America public. During October 1945, Andrew Wyeth's father as well as his three-year-old nephew, Newell Convers Wyeth II, had been killed as their car stalled upon railroad tracks close to their house. Sadly the car had been hit by a train. Wyeth has touched on the topic of his father's dying as an emotional occurrence which influenced his artistic career, as well being a strong private tragedy. Shortly following this happening, Wyeth's art fused into what would become his matured and lasting style, which is defined by a hushed color palette, extremely lifelike interpretations, and the portrayal of emotionally laden symbolic items.

During 1948 Wyeth started painting Anna and Karl Kuerner, neighbors of the Wyeths at their Chadds Ford home. It had been on the Olsen farm, in 1948, where he created the famous painting Christina's World, a renowned picture of crippled Christina Olsen longing for her home. Such as the Olsons in Maine, the Kuerners as well as their farm were one of Wyeth's most significant themes for almost thirty years. Ironically, the Kuerner's farm is only a a couple of yards from the railroad tracks that N.C. Wyeth passed away. The Kuerner's farm is now open to tour by the Brandywine River Museum as is also the N.C. Wyeth house and studio.

traveling between both Pennsylvania and Maine, Wyeth kept up his realist painting style which remained relatively unchanging for more than 50 years. He was inclined to gravitate to various recognizable landscape topics and models, that he would come back to often over the decades. During 1958, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth bought and remodeled "The Mill", a series of eighteenth century buildings which would be seen frequently in his art, including the painting titled Night Sleeper. The artist's solitary walks had been his chief method of discovering inspiration for his landscape paintings. Wyeth bears a surpassing closeness with the land and sea, reaching for a spiritual perception founded on it's history and unexpressed emotion. He generally produced dozens of sketches on a given topic, done in pencil or broadly brushed watercolor prior to creating the completed work, which would be done in either in watercolor, dry brush, as well as egg tempera.

Once Christina Olsen passed away in the wintertime in 1969, Wyeth focused his artistic eye upon Siri Erickson, catching the bare purity she possessed in the painting Indian Summer. This piece would be a forerunner to the Helga pieces.

During 1986, Wyeth received wide attention when a set of 247 studies of his neighbor, a Prussian-born Helga Testorf, were discovered in his studio. These studies had been created over the period of time between 1971-1985 without the knowledge of Wyeth's wife or John Testorf, Helga's husband. Helga had been a musician, baker and caregiver, as well as friend of the Wyeth's. She had first encountered Andrew as she was taking care of Karl Kuerner. Helga had not modeled previously, but she rapidly grew at ease with the extended times required for he posing, times in which she had been watched and painted in intimate detail. The Helga works are not an apparent mental examination, merely further study of her in a tangible landscape fixed in Wyeth's conventional landscapes. She's almost constantly unsmiling and passive, however even with such measured restrictions, Wyeth manages to communicate elusive tones of her character and mood, as he does in several of his greatest portraits. This comprehensive study of a single subject examined in assorted circumstances as well as emotional states is singular within American art. During 1986, millionaire Leonard E. B. Andrews bought the total collection, keeping all the works together.

The paintings were shown in the National Gallery of Art during 1987, as well as then went on an American tour. The Helga pictures are at present owned by a private Japanese concern, and they have agreed to permit future exhibitions. During March 2002, Wyeth created Gone, his final Helga art work, and it had been added to the collection when it toured the country in 2002 and 2006.

Wyeth's artistic talent has long been debatable. As a representational painter, Wyeth's art works have crisply counter the predominant style of abstraction that has remained in style with American art world since the mid-twentieth century.

Museum showings of Wyeth's art works have set attendance records, however numerous art critics remain greatly critical of his painting. Peter Schjeldahl, art critic with The Village Voice, claimed his art works as "Formulaic stuff not very effective even as illustration 'realism'". Typical negative critiques state that Wyeth's art brinks on illustration, as well as that his typically rural topics are greatly burdened with sentiment.

Champions of Wyeth's art feel that his works, while they occasionally exhibit moments of pure, open beauty,also bear solid emotional tones, symbolic substance, and inherent abstraction. Many agree that Wyeth is extremely gifted at managing the mediums of watercolor as well as egg tempera. With the exception for early experiments, Wyeth has avoided applying conventional oil paints. His skilled control of minimized color and foreboding shadow allows the barest, simplest themes to light a canvas. Wyeth is sharply perceptive of sound, and in that respect it frequently seems that the motionlessness in his painting is as if he is pausing to hear to the most fragile of sounds.

- A Feather in Her Cap 1987
- Adam 1963
- Adrift 1982
- Airborne 1996
- Alvaro and Christina 1968
- Anna Christina 1967
- Arctic Circle Study 1996
- Baby Owl 1944
- Baron Philippe 1981
- Barracoon 1976
- Battle Ensign 1987
- Below Dover 1950
- Big Top 1981
- Black Velvet 1972
- Blackberry Picker 1943
- Blowing Leaves 1980
- Blue Ice 1994
- Blue Jacket 1954
- Braids 1977
- Breakup 1994
- Brown Swiss 1957
- Buzzard's Glory 1968
- Chambered Nautilus 1956
- Charlie Ervine 1937
- Chimney Swift 1947
- China Blue 1986
- Christina Olson 1947
- Christina's World 1948
- Christmas Morning 1944
- Church At The Port 1982
- City in the Dawn
- Combers 1979
- Cooling Shed 1953
- Corner of the Woods 1954
- Cranberries 1966
- Curtain Call 1979
- Day Dream 1980
- Dead Gull 1938
- Dil Huey Farm 1941
- Distant Thunder 1961
- Dogwood at Valley Forge 1941
- Dormer Window
- Dr. Syn 1981
- Elwell's Sawmill
- Embers 2000
- End of Olsons 1969
- Ericksons 1973
- Far from Needham 1966
- Faraway 1952
- French Connection 1980
- From The Back 1984
- From the Capes 1974
- Full Moon 1980
- Garret Room 1962
- Geraniums 1960
- Gone Ashore 2003
- Groundhog Day 1959
- Hay Ledge 1957
- Hay Ledge 54.5x115
- Henry Teel 1945
- Her Room 1963
- Hoffman's Barn 1933
- In The Doorway 1984
- Indian Summer 1970
- Island House 1954
- Jack-Be-Nimble 1976
- John the Woodchopper 1937
- Karl 1948
- Kuerner's Farm 1983
- Late Fall 1981
- Late Harvest
- Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln 1934
- Light Wash 1961
- Little Caldwell's Island 1940
- Long Limb 1998
- Love in the Afternoon 1992
- Maga's Daughter 1966
- Maine Fisherman 1936
- Marriage 1993
- Marsh Hawk
- Master Bedroom 1965
- Master Of Arts 1999
- McVey's Barn 1933
- Monday Morning 1955
- Monologue 1965
- Moon Madness 1982
- Nicholas in the Woods 1948
- Night Hauling 1944
- Night Sleeper 1979
- No Trespassing 1991
- Nogeeshik 1972
- Not Plowed 1985
- Off at Sea 1972
- Omen 1997
- On Bar Island 1944
- On the Beach
- On the Edge 2001
- Open and Closed 1964
- Otherworld 2002
- Overflow 1978
- Pentecost 1989
- Pine Baron 1976
- Portrait of Christian Brinton 1936
- Public Sale 1943
- Quaker Ladies 1956
- Raven's Grove 1985
- Refuge 1985
- Renfield 1999
- Retread Fred's 1982
- River Cove 1958
- Roof At Archie's 1986
- Rum Runner
- Sarita 1978
- Sea Boots 1976
- Sea Dog 1971
- Sea Legs
- Seal Farm 1962
- Seed Corn 1948
- Self-Portrait 1938
- Sharpshooter
- Ship's Clock 1989
- Ship's Door 1992
- Shoreline 1938
- Silver Cove
- Siri 1970
- Snow Hill 1989
- Snowed In 1980
- Soaring 1950
- South Cushing 1955
- Spring 1978
- Spring Beauty 1943
- Spring Fed 1967
- Spring On Kuerner's Hill
- Squall 1986
- Tea for Two 1989
- Teels Island 1954
- The Carry 2003
- The Duel 1976
- The Erratic, Study for On the Edge 2001
- The Fish Hawk 1939
- The General's Chair 1969
- The German 1975
- The Hunter 1943
- The Huntress 1978
- The Intruder 1971
- The Kuerners 1971
- The Lobsterman 1937
- The Oil Lamp
- The Quaker 1975
- The Quaker 1975
- The Revenant 1949
- The Stone Fence 1946
- The White Shell 1955
- The Witching Hour 1977
- The Wood Stove
- Thin Ice 1969
- Tomorrow the Outer Shoals
- Tracks At Kuerner's 1995
- Trodden Weed 1951
- Turkey Cove Ledge 1939
- Turkey Pond 1944
- Turtleneck 1984
- Two If By Sea 1995
- Untitled 1979
- Virgin Birch 1982
- Walking Stick 2002
- Washington and La Fayette
- Weather Side 1965
- Weatherside 1965
- Widow's Walk 1990
- Willard's Coat 1968
- Wind from the Sea 1947
- Winter Corn 1948
- Winter Fields 1942
- Winter, 1946 1946
- Witches Broom 1990
- Wolf Moon 1975
- Young Swede 1938