Wyeth, Andrew (Newell), born July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford, Pa., U.S. A watercolourist and worker in tempera noted for realistic painting of old buildings, fields, hills, people of his world.

His father, N.C. Wyeth, a well-known illustrator, studied under the famous, Howard Pyle. N.C. Wyeth served as his son's only teacher.

Andrew Wyeth's works mostly concern the Brandywine Valley around Chadds Ford and the locale of his summer home in Cushing, Maine. With a palette of earth colours. Wyeth's technique compounds naturalism with the visionary, as in his best known painting, Christina's World (1948; Museum of Modern Art, New York City).

Wyeth was the first painter to receive the Presidential Freedom Award (1963) conferred by U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy.

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CHRISTINA, IN HER WORLD

Christina xxxx was a friend and neighbor of Andrew Wyeth in Cushing, Maine. She was paralyzed from the waist down. A family member often carried her out into the yard or the field, where she could enjoy the sunshine or whatever weather.

The painting uses perspective to make the viewer realized how far Christina was separated from the prosthetic environment of home -- pathetically implying the plight of the disabled.

This was one of the favorite paintings of my dear departed wife, Esther, who sufffered with a paralyzed leg from her infancy.

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