Andrew Wyeth Life And Death

Presenting Recently Rediscovered Drawings, Life And Death Explores What It Means For An Artist To Picture Their Own Death, In Both The Context Of Wyeths Late Career And Contemporary American Artpublished With Colby College Museum Of Art.this Volume Presents For The First Time A Recently Rediscovered Series Of Pencil Drawings From The Early 1990s, Through Which Wyeth Imagined His Own Funeral. Chapters By Leading Art Historians Explore The Significance Of Picturing Ones Own Death In Both The Context Of Wyeths Late Career And Contemporary American Art. The Book Connects The Funeral Series To Wyeths Decades-long Engagement With Death As An Artistic Subject In Painting, His Relationships With The Models Depicted, And His Use Of Drawing As An Expressive And Exploratory Medium.