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A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic al , etc. Post a Comment. But this level of fame came less because of his skill than the whiff of scandal associated with a secret cache of paintings unknown to his wife.

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Son Jamie has made his own mark over the years, including a painting of a thoughtful, grave President Kennedy. Unlike many of his contemporary painters who created abstract works, Andrew Wyeth seldom left viewers puzzled at what they were seeing. That was particularly the case with his studies, drawings, and paintings of neighbor Helga Testorf.

The 15 years in which Helga posed, the intense amount of time even a single sitting might take sometimes up to eight hours , and the intimate of the paintings—including a number of full-frontal nudes—would have been enough to make the work notorious. Not everyone accepted the history of the paintings presented by the Wyeths. One dissenter was Robert Hughes, chief art critic of Time.

I found particularly interesting in this whole curious incident the role played by a secondary character, Leonard Andrews, the initial buyer of the paintings. Andrews owned 25 newsletters. A touring exhibition of seven American galleries, including the National Gallery of Art, exposed the collection to a million visitors. In favor of that notion were the following:.

That may be the operative question in this whole hullabaloo. In one sense, it may not have mattered whether or not the Wyeths were complicit in drumming up publicity for these paintings. It was his promise, but Mother Nature had other plans.