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Andrew Wyeth | |||
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1917 in Chadds Ford, PA Lives and works Chadds Ford PA, and Cushing, ME |
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| Man and the Moon, 1990 | ||||
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tempera paint on Renaissance panel (Pre-gessoed masonite) 30 1/8 x 48 inches Promised Gift of the Crosby Kemper Foundations PG2000.3CKF |
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| Wyeth draws the subject for his realistic tempera
and watercolor paintings entirely from his surroundings, neighbors, family,
and friends. This painting portrays Wyeth's friend Jimmy Lynch standing
beside his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Shrouded in the twilight of memory,
the scene refers to the friends' youthful outings with other farm boys,
when they rode through the country, nude, on warm summer nights. |