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Article: 'Andrew Wyeth' is not dead: Brandywine Valley gives an intimate glimpse of artists' world
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 15, 2006
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CHADDS FORD, Pa. - For artist Andrew Wyeth, the hill of the
Kuerner farmhouse prompts the stark memory of the tragedy that, he
has said, made him an artist.
A mere glance away lies the bend where his father, illustrator
N.C. Wyeth, died with Andrew's nephew in an auto-train crash 60-plus
years ago. This seemingly unremarkable bump of earth is the scene for
two of Wyeth's best-known paintings, "Winter 1946" and "Snow Hill."
Each is linked to death.
The 88-year-old Wyeth grew up in Chadds Ford and the Brandywine
Valley, where he continues to live in fall and winter.
"People ask me all the time, 'Is he dead?'" says Victoria Browning
Wyeth, the artist's 27-year-old granddaughter, leading a tour ...