Art: Andrew Wyeth-A Journal of Reality

Louise Cella Caruso’s illustrated lecture provides a glimpse of the watercolor paintings and meticulous egg temperas of Andrew Wyeth’s world -- the rolling, verdant hills of Chadds Ford, Pa. and the rugged coast of Cushing, Maine-Wyeth’s intimate family -- as well as his lifelong African-American friends, his immediate neighbors. 

Andrew Wyeth was one of America’s most distinguished painters. Over his long career, he was celebrated as a champion of realism, raising more ire than the radical artist of the avant-garde. His Helga suite was scathingly censored, making his achievement controversial.

The art of Wyeth is rich, diverse, seemingly tranquil but vibrating eerily with death, secrecy and sensuality, combining mad freedom with truth. Andrew Wyeth considered himself “an eye hovering above his existence.”