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Format:

Book

Author:

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009.

Title:

Andrew Wyeth : autobiography / introduction by Thomas Hoving ; with commentaries by Andrew Wyeth as told to Thomas Hoving.

Edition:

First edition

Publisher, Date:

Boston ; New York ; Toronto ; London : Bulfinch Press : Little, Brown, and Company ; Kansas City, Missouri : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [1995]

Description:

168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 x 29 cm

Summary:

This comprehensive survey is a look back at six decades of paintings by America's favorite artist. With 138 reproductions, including many seminal paintings from both his Chadds Ford and Maine work, this is the crowning book of Andrew Wyeth's career. But what makes Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting--an "autobiography," told through conversations with Thomas Hoving--which offer fascinating, often unexpected facts about Wyeth's life and art.

Subjects:

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009.

Painters -- United States -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Other Author:

Hoving, Thomas, 1931-2009.

Wilson, Marc F., writer of introduction, curator.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Notes:

"This book was published on the occasion of the 1995 retrospective exhibition "Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri."--Title page verso.

"A Bulfinch Press Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166) and index.

Exhibited: "Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography," at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Sept. 29-Nov. 26, 1995.

Contents:

Marc F. Wilson -- Thomas Hoving -- Introduction / Thomas Hoving -- The Plates and Commentary -- Personal Chronology.

LCCN:

94048305

ISBN:

9780821221594

9780821222171

0821225693

9780821225691

0821221590

0821222171 (pbk.)

Other Number:

31754451

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

42970

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

759.13 Wyeth