OBITUARY
Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Wyeth’s watercolor and tempera landscapes and portraits made him one of America’s best loved artists. He remained a figurative painter who prospered even in times when the genre was deemed passe.
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By Valerie J. Nelson and Myrna Oliver
Los Angeles Times
January 16, 2009
Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America’s most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape “Christina’s World” was one of the 20th century’s most famous artworks, died Friday. He was 91. (Click on ‘Continue Reading’ for more)
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