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Fone Bone
01-16-2009, 03:08 PM
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/16/america/wyeth.4-409557.php




Andrew Wyeth, iconic American painter, dies at 91

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists from tiny Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of American culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, died Friday at his home in suburban Philadelphia, The Associated Press reported. He was 91.

Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford, The AP said, citing Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.

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I used to see a print of his famous Christina's World every time I visited my piano teacher's house when I was a kid. I'll miss him.

Spideyzilla
01-16-2009, 04:35 PM
Wow, may he Rest in Peace, and my thoughts and prayers are with his family.

ToOn~g@l
01-16-2009, 11:47 PM
Wow I didn't even know he was still alive! I remember first seeing Christina's World in my Humanities class about four years ago and was amazed by the simplicity of it. It's such a lovely painting. It's sad to hear of his passing, may he rest in Peace.

G. Wen
01-17-2009, 06:09 AM
So the critics didn't like his art because it didn't fit their definition of "Modernism"? I'll take Wyeth over Jeff Koons or Thomas Kinkade any day of the week.