![]() ![]() “While you could be ecstatic for the success that your son or daughter is finding,” Podmaniczky mused, “there could also be sadness that your own career didn’t go as planned.” A photograph from the opening shows the family standing before his work, their smiling faces and huddled frames completely obstructing the paintings behind them. Andrew Newell Wyeth ( WY-eth J January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. Publicity from N.C.’s show, however, focused far less on his work and far more on the family dynamic. ![]() Rooted in the beauty and melancholy of the American landscape, they were more akin to the Post-Impressionists and American Realists than any modern movement. Like much of his commercial work, N.C.’s paintings were traditional for the time and slightly nostalgic. Both of Andrew’s shows sold out entirely, while only two paintings from his father’s show sold at all. Andrew had already had two solo exhibitions there, one earlier that year and another in 1937. Wyeth’s first major solo exhibition was in 1939, when he was 57, at the New York gallery Macbeth. ![]()
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