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    Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies at 91 One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World” became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” or Whistler’s portrait of his mother or Emmanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Wyeth said he thought the work was “a complete flat tire” when he sent originally it off to the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan in 1948. The Museum of Modern Art bought it for $1,800. via tylercoates

    Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies at 91

    One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World” became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” or Whistler’s portrait of his mother or Emmanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Wyeth said he thought the work was “a complete flat tire” when he sent originally it off to the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan in 1948. The Museum of Modern Art bought it for $1,800.

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    January 16, 2009, 11:50am  

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      An old flame used to keep a print of this on his bedroom wall. We were talking about it one day and disagreed vehemently...
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      Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies at 91...I’m not an art expert at all but I...
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      This picture is actually on my best friend’s wall. I didn’t connect it until this moment.
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      I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware...don’t have THAT many things to take pride in regarding...
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      His other painting were so different.
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      There’s more to the post on Tyler’s tumblr. Crush on him, willya? He’s worth it.
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      One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World” became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” or...
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