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Andrew Wyeth Biography
1917 Born
July 12, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; son of
illustrator N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
Wyeths’
purchase a summer house in Port Clyde, Maine;
Andrew will summer and paint here and in Cushing,
Maine, throughout his life
Begins
drawing and painting regularly; influenced by
father and his student, Peter Hurd
Studies
traditional academic art and collaborates on
various illustrations with N.C. Wyeth; sells
illustrations to publisher Charles Scribner’s
Sons
Produces
a proliferation of watercolors during two summers
in Maine; breaks from father’s rigid training;
instructed by Hurd, begins using egg tempera;
first group exhibition at Philadelphia Art Alliance
First
solo exhibition (of Maine watercolors) at Macbeth
Gallery, New York, sells out in two days; appears
in ARTnews and Art in America; Macbeth Gallery
becomes dealer
First
of multiple solo exhibitions at Doll & Richards,
Boston; one-man show at Currier Gallery of Art,
Manchester, NH; begins doing a variety of commercial
work to supplement income
Exhibits
frequently at Macbeth Gallery and Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts
Participates
in six Corcoran Gallery biennials, Washington
D.C.
Solo
exhibition at Macbeth Gallery results in reproduction
of work in New York Times; joint exhibition
with Peter Hurd at Corcoran Gallery, Washiington
D.C.; group exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago;
begins using drybrush
Meets
Edward Hopper; appears on cover of American
Artist
Participates
in major group exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art; paints cover for Saturday Evening Post
Elected
to National Academy of Design; first west coast
solo exhibition at E.B. Crocker Art Gallery,
Sacramento, CA, show travels to the Seattle
Art Museum; N.C. Wyeth dies
Elected
to the American Watercolor Society, youngest
member in organization’s history
Christina
Olsen becomes first of three serial female models;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchases Christina’s
World; group exhibition at Carnegie Institute
Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; befriends Lincoln Kirstein
Becomes
youngest member ever elected to the National
Institute of Arts and Letters; appears in ARTnews;
first retrospective organized by Currier Gallery
of Art, Manchester NH, and William A. Farnsworth
Library and Art Museum, Rockland, ME, reviewed
in Time; joint exhibition with Waldo Pierce
at Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston; group
exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London
Leaves
Macbeth Gallery; M. Knoedler & Co. becomes
dealer, prices drastically increase as does
popularity with collectors; solo exhibition
at Knoedler promptly sells out
Joint
exhibition with Robert Motherwell, Abraham Rattner
and Ben Shahn at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston;
joint exhibition with Louis Bouché, Edward
Hopper, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler at Worcester
Art Museum, MA; Robert Frost purchases a Wyeth;
articles in ARTnews and Time
Portrait
of President Eisenhower commissioned for Time
cover; Philadelphia Museum of Art buys a Wyeth,
highest price ever paid for a living artist’s
work
Retrospective
at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; traveling
solo exhibition organized by Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; receipt of
Presidential Medal of Freedom is subject of
Time cover story (first artist to appear on
the magazine’s cover); Dallas Museum of Fine
Arts and Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine, pay record
prices for Wyeths
Life
magazine refers to Wyeth as, “America’s preeminent
artist,” in interview replete with twenty pages
of reproductions
Record-setting
traveling retrospective organized by Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts visits Baltimore Museum
of Art, Whitney Museum, and Art Institute of
Chicago
Retrospective
at the Whitney Museum of American Art; group
exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
California; begins painting Siri, the second
of three serial female models
Subject
of White House’s first one-man show; retrospective
at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; newly opened
Coe Kerr Gallery Inc., New York, begins representing,
also represents son, painter Jamie Wyeth; begins
painting Helga Testorf, the third of three serial
models
Brandywine
River Museum opens in Chadds Ford, features
a constant rotation of Wyeths; retrospective
at M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco
First
living American artist to receive a retrospective
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Inducted
into the Institut de France Académie
des Beaux-Arts
First
living American artist exhibited at Royal Academy
of Arts, London; one-man show at Galerie Claude
Bernard, Paris; multiple exhibitions including
those at San Jose Museum of Art, California,
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, and
Coe Kerr Gallery
Traveling
solo exhibition organized by National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C. results in Art &
Antiques, Newsweek and Time cover stories; traveling
joint exhibtion with N.C. and Jamie organized
by The Brandywine River Museum; controversy
over secret series of nudes
Multiple
exhibitions including those at Whitney Museum
of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts,
Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum,
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, and
ACA Gallery, New York; Coe Kerr Gallery closes,
1992
Andrew
Wyeth Gallery is opened at the Brandywine Museum
of Art
Continues
to work and live in Chadds Ford and Cushing,
Maine
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Andrew
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