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Article: Andrew Wyeth, austere artist of the familiar, dies
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2009
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Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a changeless rural present
along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made him
America's most popular living artist and whose 1948 painting
"Christina's World" became one of the most famous artworks of the
20th century, died yesterday.
Mr. Wyeth, who was 91, died in his home in Chadds Ford, Pa.,
after a brief illness, the Brandywine River Museum there said in a
statement.
Perhaps no American painter has ever had as strong a hold on the
popular imagination as Mr. Wyeth did over the course of his seven-
decade career. As the critic Brian O'Doherty once said, "Wyeth