Allen and Benner, two islands off the coast of Maine, will become home to campus for arts and climate research.
Andrew Wyeth
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Remembering My Friend Andrew Wyeth on His 100th Birthday
In the ebbs and flows of an art career, one learns to trust in other artists who lead by example.
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Andrew Wyeth’s Paintings Featured on New USPS Stamps
Andrew Wyeth’s melancholic paintings of rural American life will soon be available as postage stamps, released on the centennial of his birth.
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The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway in an Andrew Wyeth Painting
Some images just work, and you can definitely say that about Tim O’Brien’s update of Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting.
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How Andrew Wyeth’s Cast Bronze Hands Inspired a Morbid Self-Portrait
Andrew Wyeth was not fond of self-portraits, and they rarely appear in his long career in 20th-century realism.
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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
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A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room
Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, would the museum be forced to content itself with scraps?
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Fooling Around With Art History, on Lunch Break
When most people are bored at work, they surf Facebook. Not so with Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick, two employees at the website creation startup Squarespace who funneled their creative energy into photographic homages to the art historical canon.
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Finding Refuge in Wyeth’s Windows
Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict.
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Vote Picasso for Minister of Art!
CHICAGO — When my wife was completing her mail-in voter ballot for the upcoming US elections, something on the instruction leaflet caught my eye.