![]() ![]() ![]() His fondness for expressing the instantaneous inclined him towards swift execution, which was counterbalanced by his desire to capture the tiniest details. His style hardly varied throughout his career. Wyeth led a quiet life, seldom travelled and spent most of his time in the states of Maine and Pennsylvania. Determined to devote himself to painting, in 1943 he was offered a contract to produce the cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post, as his father had done, but turned it down. It was such a resounding success that it sold out on the first day. His work was first exhibited at The Wyeth Family, a show organised by the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1936, and his first one-man exhibition took place the following year. In 1933Wyeth became acquainted with the watercolours of Winslow Homer and the powerful impression they had on him prompted him to emulate the Old Master and to adopt watercolour as his favourite medium during his early years as a painter. On account of this, his father, a famous illustrator, was his main tutor and introduced him to the world of drawing. The American painter Andrew Wyeth, who hailed from a family of artists, suffered from fragile health during his childhood. ![]()
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