Andrew Wyeth - Artist Biography

Andrew Wyeth is a unique American artist whose works focus on scenes of life in the country. Several of Wyeth's paintings are available on PosterCheckOut.com. Among them are "Around the Corner," "Christina's World," and "Chambered Nautilus." All the Wyeth prints on our website are presented in high-quality poster form.

The Life of Andrew Wyeth
Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in 1917, Andrew Wyeth was raised in an environment where art was central. His father, N.C. Wyeth, was a famous artist who schooled his children at home and focused their education on art. Wyeth, his two sisters and his younger brother were all trained to be artists, and each of them continued in their father's footsteps.

Andrew Wyeth first stepped into the national consciousness when his painting "The Hunter" was used on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Around the same time, he was honored with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. By the early 1960s, Wyeth had become a popular and honored artist. He was the subject of a cover story in Time magazine in 1963, and shortly thereafter was nominated by President Kennedy for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Wyeth's paintings depict startlingly real images of nature and country life. At the same time, they typically have a somewhat bleak or isolated feel to them. It is interesting to note that his paintings became so popular (his exhibition at the Whitney broke attendance records) despite the fact that his style was so different from other populist artists like Norman Rockwell.