Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In
Washington: National Gallery of Art / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2014. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth, tan & color illus. dust jacket, 192 pp., many color illus. New in shrinkwrap. Item #154538
ISBN: 9781938922190
Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition of select artwork by American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009). "Presents a select group of Wyeth's tempera paintings -- many of them never before published or on public view -- along with two essays that explore Wyeth's fascination with windows. Addressing links between Wyeth's work and the poetry of Robert Frost as well as the paintings of Edward Hopper and Charles Sheeler, authors Anderson and Brock consider Wyeth's statement that he was, in fact, an 'abstract' painter, and in so doing offer an entirely new approach to his work." (dj) Beautiful! Contents as follows: Director's foreword / Earl A. Powell III -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Introduction / Nancy K. Anderson and Charles Brock -- Wind from the sea : painting truth beneath the facts / Nancy K. Anderson -- Through a glass : window in the art of Andrew Wyeth, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Hopper / Charles Brock -- Plates. Olson House ; Kuerner Farm ; Brandywine Studio ; Variations -- Exhibition checklist. One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, Wind from the Sea (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows again and again during the next six decades, producing more than 300 remarkable works that explore the formal and conceptual aspects of looking both in and out of windows. Spare, elegant, and abstract, these non-figural paintings are free of the narrative element inevitably associated with his well-known compositions. This ... book presents a select group of Wyeth's tempera paintings ... along with two essays that explore Wyeth's fascination with windows."
OCLC: 866803684
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