
Wyeth in his studio with a cowboy modelĪndrew was the youngest of the five children of well-known illustrator and artist N.C. This tempera was painted in 1948, when Wyeth was 31 years old. Wyeth often noted: "I paint my life." One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Andrew Newell Wyeth (/ˈwaɪ.ɛθ/ WY-eth J– January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predomina ntly in a regionalist style.
