Ian
01-16-2009, 10:44 AM
(CNN) -- Andrew Wyeth, the well-known American painter famed for his painting of a young girl in a field called "Christina's World," has died, according to a Brandywine River Museum official.
Wyeth, 91, died in his sleep Thursday night, according to Lora Englehart, public relations coordinator for the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.
Wyeth, who lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine, "has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937," according to a biography in InfoPlease.
His main subjects were the "places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine."
"Christina's World," painted in 1948, shows his Maine neighbor stretched out in a field looking at a house. It is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
"His 'Helga" pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986," the bio said. Those were painted in Pennsylvania.
Wyeth, 91, died in his sleep Thursday night, according to Lora Englehart, public relations coordinator for the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.
Wyeth, who lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine, "has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937," according to a biography in InfoPlease.
His main subjects were the "places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine."
"Christina's World," painted in 1948, shows his Maine neighbor stretched out in a field looking at a house. It is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
"His 'Helga" pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986," the bio said. Those were painted in Pennsylvania.