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Wyeth

Wyeth

2 9.2
An American painter who made detailed realistic paintings of rural life
  • proper noun
  • /ˈwaɪəθ/
: Wyeth
  • "Mr. Wyeth, if you'll wait a moment, I'll go get you an application."
  • Andrew Wyeth

I think of Andrew Wyeth, I think of JD Salinger.

Examples

  • The museum will host a temporary exhibition of Wyeth's works during the Olympics.

  • Frolic had intended that the museum house mainly the art of Andrew Wyeth and include members of the Wyeth family.

    Academic text (1991)

  • But, no, you've got to be the Andrew Wyeth of the East Village.

    *batteries not included (1987)

  • Old Andrew Wyeth could make a masterpiece out of a face like that.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Andrew Wyeth, 1950.

    Lying and Stealing (2019)

  • All these works share the same subject: one woman, a neighbor of Wyeth's named Helga Testorf.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • About the painting, Andrew Wyeth's Helga series was one of the biggest sensations in twentieth-century American art.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Chaos is why, with only three primary colors, Andrew Wyeth's whites are unlike Vermeer's; why Gauguin saw things differently than van Gogh.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The least identified art is Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World and Whistler's Mother by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Other recipients included author N. Scott Momaday, painter Wyeth, and historian Richard Pipes.

Synonyms

Andrew Wyeth
vsWyeth
1 7.1

An American painter who paints realistic pictures of country life in Pennsylvania and Maine

is the shorter single-word form used as an informal or shorthand reference

Surface Forms

Wyeth main

Etymology

Wyeth is an English family name now best known for the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, who painted 'Christina's World'. A helpful way to remember Wyeth is to link the name to that quiet, detailed style of painting, so the word brings to mind the artist and his rural scenes.