A few weeks ago I received an email from Jenna at artsy.com, curious about why my Man of TIN blog post had turned up when she was researching web link opportunities for a new exhibition about American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917 – 2009).
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/hobby-learning-1-andrew-wyeth/
Jenna emailed me with news of the new exhibition:
“I am reaching out to certain website and blog owners that publish content in line with our mission to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone. We hope to continue promoting arts education and accessibility with your help.”
The Seattle Art Museum is scheduled to exhibit Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, which showcases Andrew Wyeth https://www.artsy.net/show/seattle-art-museum-andrew-wyeth-in-retrospect
http://wyeth.site.seattleartmuseum.org
The Artsy Andrew Wyeth page provides visitors with Wyeth’s bio, over 40 of his works, exclusive articles, and up-to-date Wyeth exhibition listings. https://www.artsy.net/artist/andrew-wyeth
“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.”
Andrew Wyeth
This was a good chance to go back to my previous post on Andrew Wyeth, a painter of landscape and portraits, one of my favourite American painters
Since my last Wyeth post, I have noticed much more Wyeth material online and via YouTube.
Andrew Wyeth collected American dimestore and composition figures, shown here in this Youtube video.
New Wyeth material
There is interesting new photos of Andrew or Andy Wyeth by his granddaughter Victoria Browning Wyeth, http://gcma.org/victoria-wyeth-my-andy/
https://www.vogue.com/article/andrew-wyeth-victoria-wyeth-my-andy-exhibition
and several recent print or video interviews with her including about having her portrait painted by him.
The Brandywine School
Andrew Wyeth painted manly portraits and landscapes. His father was a historical illustrators, N.C. Wyeth, who worked with Howard Pyle and other painters of the Brandywine School and style.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine_School
Recognise that name? Brandywine, where the Wyeth family are based, is the site of a famous Battle of Brandywine Creek in the American Revolutionary War on September 11, 1777 in Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine
Like many British boys growing up in the 1970s, I have had a passing interest in the Revolutionary War since having Airfix issued British and American infantry toy figures in 1:72 / 1:76 (OO / HO ‘model railway’) scale with their dramatic cover art, historical illustrations pictures that hopefully Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth would appreciate.
These Airfix box covers have some of the appeal of Howard Pyle’s famous Revolutionary War illustration Nation Makers.
https://www.rockwell-center.org/essays-illustration/the-nation-makers/
http://www.brandywine.org/museum/collection/collection-highlights/nation-makers
So whilst I am unlikely to make it to Seattle or Brandywine any time soon to see the Wyeth exhibitions in his Centenary year, at least online I can catch a glimpse.
There you go, mixing Andrew Wyeth with Airfix in one blogpost, something that toy soldier collector Andrew Wyeth would have appreciated.
Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN blogpost, 12 November 2017
Man of Tin blog 