Andrew Wyeth

A revelatory new survey, situating the milestones of Wyeth’s art within the trajectory of 20th-century American life. Considered one of the greatest painters of his generation, Andrew Wyeth is best known for his “memory paintings” of rural Pennsylvania, where he lived and worked from 1939 until his death in 2009. This major retrospective catalogue explores the four major periods in Wyeth’s career: (1) Wyeth as a product of the interwar years, when he started to form his own “war memories” through military props and documentary photography he discovered in his father’s art studio; (2) Wyeth's famous "Citizenship series," which focused on rural farmers and other residents living in rural Maine as a commentary on America's involvement with WWII; (3) Wyeth's depictions of the American landscape in works such as "The Big Five-Inch" series and his renderings of the natural world and its inhabitants; (4) Wyeth’s later work, which includes smaller-scale studies made during nature walks through the fields near his home.