Andrew WyethAmerican, 1917–2009Eaton Place
May one see it?
No: it was stolen and is being sought
Listed in the FBI's National Stolen Art File under no. 00187.
- Checked
- · Reported
- In this state since
- Source
- A register of stolen art
Particulars
In the catalog
Sources
- The FBI's National Stolen Art File
- Image: FBI National Stolen Art File
Meanwhile, in the life of Andrew Wyeth
The whole life1950–1970s
The Kuerner farm, his subject for 30 years
His Chadds Ford neighbours Anna and Karl Kuerner and their farm were among Wyeth's chief subjects for nearly 30 years: “I didn't think it a picturesque place. It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally.” In “Brown Swiss” (1957), named after Karl's cows, there are no cows — only their tracks in the grass.
1960s
Turning to portraiture
In the 1960s Wyeth began to paint portraits: his friend Tom Clark (“Garret Room”, 1962), his neighbour Adam Johnson (“Adam”, 1963), his sister Carolyn (“Up in the Studio”, 1965).
1963 · Award
Presidential Medal of Freedom
1965
In Life magazine he calls himself an abstractionist
In a 1965 Life magazine article Wyeth said that although he was thought of as a realist, he thought of himself as an abstractionist: “My people, my objects breathe in a different way: there's another core — an excitement that's definitely abstract.”
