The major paintings of iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917 2009) presented together in an
accessible volume. Andrew Wyeth is an essential introduction to the enduring masterworks of
this profoundly popular American artist. Published on the occasion of the centennial of the
artist s birth this handsome book highlights works spanning the entirety of the artist s
seven-decade career painting the landscapes and people he knew in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania
where he lived and in Maine where he summered. Many of his most important landscapes and
portraits were created in and around his Chadds Ford studio now part of the Brandywine River
Museum of Art with which Andrew Wyeth was intimately connected since its founding in 1971. A
short introduction provides an overview of his life and descriptive captions contextualize
some fifty of the artist s finest and most beloved paintings including Pennsylvania Landscape
(1942) Wind from the Sea (1947) Christina s World (1948) Trodden Weed (1951) Roasted
Chestnuts (1956) Braids (1977) and Pentecost (1989). Readers will also be treated to works
previously unseen such as Betsy s Beach (2006) and Crow Tree (2007).
