Search results for: “wyeth”
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N.C. Wyeth’s Independence Day
Independence Day (At Concord Bridge), N.C. Wyeth, oil on canvas, 33 x 30 in. (85 x 77 cm), Image is from a Sotheby’s auction in 2021. (Click on the image twice to get the larger version.) Presumably the original is in a privete collection. The great American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, like his teacher…
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Eye Candy for Today: Wyeth’s Evening at Kuerners
Evening at Kuerners, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor, 25 x 40 in. ( 65 x 101 cm). Link is to a page on Artistic Junkie, large image here. This is one of my favorites of Andrew Wyeth’s drybrush watercolors, which is saying something, given how much I love those paintings. This is Kuerner Farm, where Wyeth,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush watercolor
Noah’s Ark Study, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor on paper. Original is in the collection of the Wyeth Foundadion for American Art, I don’t know the size. Image is referenced from a page on the site of the local PBS affiliate, WHYY. The full size image is here. Starting in 2023, the Brandywine Museum of Art…
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N. C. Wyeth
When I first started Lines and Colors back in 2005, I actually wondered if I might run out of artists I admire to write about. Some fourteen years and several thousand posts later, my list of potential subjects is longer than the list of those I’ve covered. There are some artists, however, who are among…
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush & watercolor
Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth Watercolor and drybrush, roughly 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image and link is from a 2013 Christie’s auction sale. While I don’t always respond as strongly to his more formal and conceptual works, I very much like Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors and drybrush watercolors, in which he is just…
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Andrew Wyeth’s windows
As I’ve mentioned before, I run hot and cold on Andrew Wyeth. I’m not particularly fond of the paintings that are generally regarded to be his major works — which tend to be figurative and conceptual, with narrative implications — but I do very much like some of his simple and direct observations of his…