(AP) A recent review of an Andrew Wyeth show calls his famous painting “Christina’s World” the “best-loved worst painting in history.” But don’t be a hater. Some of us love Wyeth, his work, and well, ...
It’s often taken for granted that artistic advances happen in cities. By and large, they do. And yet some great 20th-century American art has been made by artists who lived on farms — among them ...
Readers first meet Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), the future painter of Christina’s World, as a dreamy boy sprawled in tall grass, a sketch pad balanced on his stomach. Creative freedom defined his ...
GREENVILLE — In 1979, The New York Times reported that the artwork of Andrew Wyeth would move to a "little-known museum." That "little-known museum"? The five-year-old Greenville County Museum of Art.
After serving as a machine gunner for Germany in World War I, Karl Kuerner Sr. became a sheep herder. He immigrated to the United States in 1923, and his wife and daughter followed him over in 1925. A ...