Description: "Andrew Wyeth first discovered the haunting beauty of the farm owned by German immigrants Karl and Anna Kuerner on his boyhood rambles in Pennsylvania's bucolic Brandywine River Valley, and it would captivate him for the rest of his life, appearing as subject of more than one thousand landscapes, interiors, and portraits. As traced throughout this volume, just what Wyeth uncovered beneath the farm's austere facade is key to understanding his singular artistic vision. This intimate look at Wyeth's decades-long connection to Kuerner Farm and the people there reveals not only the source of many of the artist's most deeply resonant paintings but also the secrets that have given his deceptively simple art its mysterious pull on the popular imagination for generations. As Wyeth became one of the country's most celebrated artists, he continued to return to the farm, the Kuerners, and to the enigmatic Helga Testorf, creating timeless portraits from an experience of deep looking and charting a way toward unearthing from the ordinary, the extraordinary"--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "One of the most popular and celebrated American artists of the 20th century, Andrew Wyeth spent seven decades painting a particular farm in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, resulting in nearly 1,000 paintings. Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth is the first focused exhibition on this defining subject and tells the story of the connection between artist and place - one of the most enduring connections in American art." -- GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD
"This book explores Wyeth's evolving relationship with the Kuerners, as well as with Karl's enigmatic caregiver Helga Testorf, whom he painted extensively between 1971 and 1985 in a series of portraits now known as the 'Helga Pictures'. It also looks at his decades-long connection to the property itself. 'I didn't think it a picturesque place, ' he once said of Kuerner Farm. 'It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally.'" -- CHRISTIE'S