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Wyeth: Chadds Ford
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Wyeth's favorite subject is the land and inhabitants around his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and those near his summer home in Cushing, Maine. His most famous work, and one of the most well-known images in 20th century American art, is Christina's World (1948), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Wyeth's painting Winter 1946 depicts a lone neighborhood boy running down a hill within sight of the Chadds Ford railroad crossinq where Wyeth's father had been killed the previous year. The tempera, loaded with personal symbols of Wyeth's admiration for his father, was the first painting he did after his father's death.
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Although the human figure does appear occasionally in Wyeth’s early work, such as "Rum Runner" (1944), it was not until after his father’s death that he began in earnest to paint people. Most of his portraits are of a single figure, unsmiling and reflective, transmitting a sense of loneliness. Mary Rose Beaumont suggested in Art & Artists (August 1980) that he found a surrogate father in Karl Kuerner, a German-born Chadds Ford neighbor whose farm, of 150 or more acres, had fascinated Wyeth since childhood. In 1948, after making many preliminary drawings, he painted what he considers to be his best portrait, Karl.
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