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Author | : Laura J. Hoptman |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870708317 |
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In 1948 Andrew Wyeth produced what would become one of the most iconic paintings in American art: a desolate landscape featuring a woman lying in a field, that he called "Christina's World." The woman in the painting, Christina Olson, lived in Cushing, Maine, where Wyeth and his wife kept a summer house. She suffered from polio, and was paralyzed from the waist down; Wyeth was moved to portray her when he saw her one day crawling through the field towards her house. "Christina's World" was to become one of the most well-loved and most scorned works of the twentieth century, igniting heated arguments about parochialism, sentimentality, kitsch and elitism that have continued to dog the art world and Wyeth's own reputation, even after the artist's death in 2009. An essay by MoMA curator Laura Hoptman revisits the genesis of the painting, discussing Wyeth's curious focus, over the course of his career, on a deliberately delimited range of subjects and exploring the mystery that continues to surround the enigmatic painting.
Author | : Christina Baker Kline |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062356283 |
Download A Piece of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A must-read for anyone who loves history and art.” --Kristin Hannah From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.
Author | : Michael K. Komanecky |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847837351 |
Download Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World, and the Olson House Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An extraordinary private collection of watercolors and drawings by Andrew Wyeth depicting the subjects memorialized in his legendary painting Christina's World, one of the best-known works of American art. This book presents rarely seen watercolors and drawings Andrew Wyeth made of his friend Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro, and the weathered Maine farmstead where they lived. It features moving portraits and serene interior and exterior views of the house and the surrounding land, now memorialized in Wyeth's 1948 tempera painting Christina's World, one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art and now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Some forty-five works from the collection of the Marunuma Art Park in Japan, rarely shown before in the United States, are accompanied by works from the Farnsworth as well as by historical photographs of Wyeth, the Olsons, and the house. Otoyo Nakamura writes about the history of this collection of Wyeth works, and Michael Komanecky addresses the place of the Olson farm in Wyeth's career over three decades, and how Christina's World and the Olson House have inspired pilgrimages for fans of Wyeth's work. Despite its isolated location and seasonal schedule, Olson House draws thousands of visitors each year from around the world. The Olson House, acquired by the Farnsworth Art Museum in 1991, has been recommended for National Landmark status.
Author | : Andrew Wyeth |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Artists' preparatory studies |
ISBN | : 9780395322215 |
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This album of photographs, watercolor sketches, watercolor paintings, and finished tempera paintings, accompanied by a revealing personal text, explores the world of Christina Olson, the subject of Wyeth's most famous paintings
Author | : Newell Convers Wyeth |
Publisher | : Gambit Incorporated Publishers |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download The Wyeths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. -- Amazon.com.
Author | : Andrew Wyeth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Farm life in art |
ISBN | : 9780395219904 |
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Author | : Tavis Leaf Glover |
Publisher | : Tavis Leaf Glover |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2014-12-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1320107699 |
Download Canon of Design Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There’s nothing more important to the future of your artwork than to educate and nurture the unique talent you were born to share with the world. The Canon of Design represents artistic integrity, and enables you to leave your mark on this earth as one of the most talented visual communicators ever known. Learn the language of design to stand with the great masters and reflect the beauty prominently found in nature. This field manual is written to you, for you, and will help shorten your journey to achieving artistic excellence!
Author | : Esther Adler |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2013-08-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 087070852X |
Download American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.
Author | : Christina Rasmussen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1401940838 |
Download Second Firsts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a guide for dealing with grief and loss, detailing five steps of healing that can lead to a lifestyle alignment with personal values and new possibilities for a re-engaged life. --Publisher's description.
Author | : Christina Pirello |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004-01-06 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781557884237 |
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Public television cooking show host Christina Pirello is the woman who put the fun back into healthy cooking. In Christina Cooks she's responded to the hundreds of questions that her viewers and readers have put to her over the years-with lots of sound, sane advice, hints, tips and techniques-plus loads of great recipes for scrumptious, healthy meals with a Mediterranean flair. A whole foods cookbook, Christina Cooks offers inventive ideas for breakfast, special occasions, and what to feed the kids. Chapters include Soups, Breakfast, Kids' Favorites, Beans, Grains, Vegetables, Beverages, and Desserts-Christina addresses popular myths about dairy and protein amongst other often misunderstood ideas about healthful eating.