So far we have explored the works of N.C.Wyeth his son Andrew Wyeth and daughter Henriette Wyeth Hurd.Īnd now we are going to learn more about Carolyn Wyeth (1909-1994) who was the second daughter of N.C.Wyeth and another brilliant artist - yet sadly like her sister Henriette - relatively unknown and overshadowed by their brother Andrew.Ĭarolyn's perspective on her world was unusual and extremely interesting as illustrated so distinctly in Up from the Woods. We are continuing with our examination of the artistic talent in the Wyeth Dynasty.
It was his first painting using that subject and it was followed by more than 250 explorations of it throughout his life. The inspiration for the National Gallery show was a recent gift of Wyeth's masterful 1947 Wind From the Sea, which shows a lacy curtain waving in an open window with a landscape beyond. "Wyeth's landscape asks us to forgo assumptions while contemplating inner, not outer, weather." And the shutter, in its own shade of white and punctuated by an iron lock, has the look of an exterior closure. Beneath the window in the foreground is a vine that looks to be growing wild.
From the window we see a landscape, green but dark, a contrast to the bright walls.
"Wyeth is no showoff, but his mastery of white - not an easy color for the medium - dominates the painting in nuanced shades deeper than any single color. "This Andrew Wyeth watercolor looks so fresh and simple. Here's what I wrote about it when it came into the collection in 2006, a gift of Mary Alice and the late Doyle McClendon: Wyeth (1917-2009) was beloved and admired throughout his career for his meticulous, realistic depictions that also suggested much going on beneath the beautiful surfaces. Windows may seem an innocuous theme compared to the artist's psychologically complex figurative works such as Christina's World, in which a paralyzed young woman crawls up a hill toward her house.īut there's plenty of drama in the subject matter.
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