They divided their time between coastal Maine and the sloping hills of Chadds Ford in southeastern Pennsylvania, the landscapes he captured in his muted, often melancholy paintings. In 1976 she published the first book on her husband’s work, “Wyeth at Kuerners,” followed by “Christina’s World” in 1982.īetsy James met Andrew Wyeth in Maine, where their families lived, and married him a year later, in 1940. Item 48623 ISBN: 0374372802 Signed by both Betsy James and Jamie Wyeth on half-title, with. Wyeth, 1901-1945,” a book that led to a reassessment of his career. Wyeth, her father-in-law, and painter Jamie Wyeth, her son.Īfter the former's death, she compiled and edited “The Wyeths: The Letters of N. She was a guiding force throughout her husband’s career, documenting and promoting his work and the legacy of a family that included book illustrator N.C.
(AP) - Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, died Tuesday at age 98, according to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which she helped found. Fine, in very good dust jacket Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life (1998) Olive buckram. Kirstein told Betsy, 'You gave me the only son I ever had'" (ibid, p. "After posing for nineteen-year-old Jamie, Kirstein more or less shifted his allegiance from Andrew and became Jamie's friend and mentor. Kirstein was a father-figure to two generations of Wyeth artists, and as Andrew's son Jamie developed his own artistic gifts, Kirstein began to transfer his attention to the younger Wyeth. Wyeth was fond of quoting Kirstein's dismissive opinion of the critics, "Why do you want approval from those horses' asses?" (ibid, p. Kirstein, who disdained most abstract art, was essential in providing Wyeth the confidence he needed to continue work in the face of hostile critics who derided his art as sentimental and unsophisticated. Wyeth thinks that in the 1950s he needed Kirstein to push him toward more form in his work, more solidity" (Meryman, p.239, 243). "Kirstein appointed himself Wyeth's friend, admirer, mentor, and stern critic - in essence a supersuccessor to NC. Wyeth was still largely unknown at that time, and he quickly came to rely on Kirstein for support and honest criticism of his work. Inscribed on half-title to Lincoln Kirstein, "For Lincoln with love - / Betsy." Kirstein, who was on the board of MoMA, met Andrew Wyeth after the museum acquired CHRISTINA'S WORLD in 1948.
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