The Wyeths: Family and Friends

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Jun 16 2018 - Dec 30 2018


This exhibition focuses on the Wyeth family works in the Farnsworth collection: N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. But also the painter Carolyn Wyeth, daughter of N. C. Wyeth and Andrew’s sister, who studied with her father and lived in the family home in Chadds Ford all her life. 

The painters Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth Hurd (another of Andrew Wyeth’s sisters) who made a home together in New Mexico, where they established studios at their two-thousand-acre Sentinel Ranch in the hill country of San Patricio. 

And another of Andrew Wyeth’s sisters, the pianist and composer Ann Wyeth, who married a student of her father, painter John McCoy, and together maintained homes in midcoast Maine and the Brandywine Valley.


Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Andrew Wyeth, Her Room, 1963, tempera on panel,, 24 3/4 x 48 inches, museum purchase, 1964.1313. ©Andrew Wyeth 
  • Painting
  • American
  • N.C. Wyeth
  • Henriette Wyeth
  • Carolyn Wyeth
  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Jamie Wyeth
  • Peter Hurd
  • John McCoy

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