Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, one of the best-known of the 20th century. He is often referred as "painter of the people."

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He lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Cushing, Maine; many of his paintings are of the people and things of these two areas. He was educated at home by private tutors, and his father, the illustrator N.C. Wyeth, taught him how to paint.

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His works are exhibited in a number of galleries and museums, including the Brandywine River Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

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He had his first solo exhibition at age 20, at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City; every work included in the show was sold within 24 hours. In 1945, Wyeth was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1963, he became the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was conferred by President John F. Kennedy. His exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1967 set attendance records. In 1977, he became the first American artist since John Singer Sargent elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts. In 1980, he became the first living American artist to be elected to Britain's Royal Academy. In 1987, the Museum of Modern Art featured Wyeth in its first major show of a living artist. In 1990, he was the first artist to receive the Congressional Gold Medal.

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