As a child, Andrew never kept well, one illness followed another and consequently he spent a lot of time at home and his father had to provide him with home tutoring. It was a well paid profession and the family lived a comfortable lifestyle. Andrew Wyeth’s elder brother, Nathaniel, was a mechanical engineer and inventor.Īndrew Wyeth’s father although wanting to devote his time to painting had to, for financial reasons, concentrate on his work as an illustrator. Carolyn Wyeth, the second daughter was also an artist whilst the youngest daughter, Ann, was a talented musician.
The eldest child, Henrietta is considered by many art scholars to be one of the great women painters of the 20th century. All the children were extremely talented. The couple went on to have three daughters and two sons of which, Andrew was the youngest. He then built his home and studio on an eighteen acre homestead close to the site of the Brandywine battlefield, where in 1777 the Continental army led by George Washington fought the British army in the American Revolutionary War. Wyeth had moved from Massachusetts as a young man to study with the illustrator Howard Pyle in Chadds Ford and it was here in 1908 that he and Carolyn married. His father was Newell Convers (N.C.)Wyeth, an artist and one of America’s greatest illustrators. His mother was Carolyn Brenneman Wyeth (née Bockius), a lady from Wilmington. The reason for the title will become apparent when you read the life story of Andrew and his wife Betsy.Īndrew Wyeth was born in 1917 in the town of Chadds Ford, Delaware County Pennsylvania. My featured painting today is a beautiful portrait which Andrew Wyeth completed in 1966 and is entitled Maga’s Daughter. I do recommend you go and have a look at it and see what you think. It is an extremely poignant painting and one which will always linger in my memory.
The artist in question is Andrew Wyeth and in My Daily Art Display of January 3 rd 2011 I looked at his famous work entitled Christina’s World. Today I am returning to an artist I first featured almost twenty months ago.
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