Brandywine River Museum of Art opens first career retrospective of Andrew Wyeth`s work
(Artdaily.org)

On June 24, the Brandywine River Museum of Art opened Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, the first career retrospective of the artist since his death in 2009. The exhibition features over 100 works, spanning the entirety of the artist’s career: from the early watercolors that established his reputation to his final painting, Goodbye, completed just a few months before his death. The show also includes many of Wyeth’s studies, which were rarely exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and offer new insights into his creative process and approach. Co-organized by the Brandywine and the Seattle Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth in July, and provides the most in-depth presentation of the renowned artist’s diverse and prolific practice to date. Wyeth’s life extended from World War I—a period that sparked the imagination of the artist as a young boy—to t