Discover Betsy Wyeth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. They divided their time between coastal Maine and the sloping hills of Chadds Ford in southeastern Pennsylvania, the landscapes he captured in his muted, often melancholy paintings. Betsy Wyeth (Betsy Merle James) was born on 26 September, 1921 in East Aurora, NY, is an American artist. She played a major role in his career, saying, It’s like I’m a. Betsy Wyeth was her husband Andrew Wyeth’s business manager and curator, with. Betsy Wyeth was the model for her husband’s 1966 painting Maga’s Daughter. In 1976 she published the first book on her husband’s work, “Wyeth at Kuerners,” followed by “Christina’s World” in 1982.īetsy James met Andrew Wyeth in Maine, where their families lived, and married him a year later, in 1940. The Brandywine River Museum of Art pays tribute to Betsy James Wyeth (1921-2020) with a display of drawings and paintings of and about her in the Andrew Wyeth Gallery, and with a biography of her remarkable life presented in the first-floor lobby of the Museum. Back in 1980, Betsy Wyeth, wife of Andrew Wyeth, bought Allen Island, off the mid-coast of Maine, and asked me to help her figure out what to do with it. Wyeth, 1901-1945,” a book that led to a reassessment of his career. Wyeth, her father-in-law, and painter Jamie Wyeth, her son.Īfter the former's death, she compiled and edited “The Wyeths: The Letters of N. She was a guiding force throughout her husband’s career, documenting and promoting his work and the legacy of a family that included book illustrator N.C. (AP) - Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, died Tuesday at age 98, according to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which she helped found.
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