Portrait Painting Blog

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most famous living American artists, died today at the age of 91.

Christina’s World, below, is one of his most famous paintings.  He will be missed in the art world.

An interesting paragraph from his obituary in the Washington Post is below.

In the 1980s, Mr. Wyeth was the subject of an intense media spotlight for his “Helga” series of 45 paintings and 200 sketches. These pictures, many of them nudes, were the product of hundreds of modeling sessions with a Chadds Ford neighbor, Helga Testorf, over a 15-year period. No one else, not even Mr. Wyeth’s wife, had previously known about them, and their disclosure to the public was arguably the art event of the decade.