Sun 9/20-1/18/27
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was one of the best-known 20th-century American painters. He worked in a realist style known as “regionalism,” whose work depicted scenes based on the rural areas of Pennsylvania where he lived all his life, and Maine, where he summered. His father was noted artist/illustrator N.C. Wyeth who passed his passion and talent on to his son. He’s especially well known for his iconic painting “Christina’s World,” depicting a young woman from the back, half-lying in a grassy hill with a farmhouse and barn in the distance.
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s next special exhibit, Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor, opens on Sunday September 20 and will be on view through January 18, 2027. Less known than his paintings, Wyeth created a large body of watercolors starting in the 1930s, when interest in watercolor as a medium was growing. Like his paintings they mostly depict mostly of humble and/or intimate rural landscapes and interiors, sometimes studies for his paintings, sometimes works in themselves.
This exhibit features almost 75 works from Wyeth’s estate, most never previously on view, along with a selection of his paintings. It was put together in conjunction with the Brandywine Museum, of Art located in Wyeth’s hometown of Chudd’s Ford, Pennsylvania.
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