American artist Andrew Wyeth dies at 91

Andrew Wyeth as he received the National Medal of Arts in 2007

American artist Andrew Wyeth dies at 91

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford

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January 17th, 2009 – Born in July 12, 1917, Andrew Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working mainly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century, and was sometimes referred to as the “Painter of the People”, due to his work’s popularity with the American public.His most famous painting, Christina’s World (1948), is now exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, and is widely considered as an icon of the American Art of the last century

Wyeth’s art has long been controversial. As a representational artist, Wyeth’s paintings have sharply contrasted with abstraction that gained currency in American art in the middle of the 20th century

Andrew Wyeth’s work is in the collections of most major American museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City; the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock; and the White House, in Washington, DC. Especially large collections of Wyeth’s art are in the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine; and the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina. A major retrospective of Andrew Wyeth’s work occurred at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 29, 2006 to July 16, 2006