UNKNOWN TERRAIN: THE LANDSCAPES OF ANDREW WYETH

ANDREW WYETH (1917-2009)

Andrew Wyeth occupies a curious place in the art world: esteemed enough to have a major landscape show at the Whitney Museum of American Art yet denigrated enough that the catalog essays are all at pains to explain why it actually is appropriate to consider him an artist of top rank. The work in this show is recognizably Wyeth\'s, displaying his tightly detailed observation and cool surface underlain by suppressed passion. Several of his iconic temperas, such as Christina\'s World (1948) and Winter (1949), are included. But many unknown works are reproduced for the first time here, including many watercolors using a loose, unfinished technique. Overall, the show conveys an impressive technical mastery alongside an improvisatory freedom not usually recognized in Wyeth. 

Forfattere: David A. Ross, Beth Venn, Adam D. Weinberg, & Michael Kammen.