Andrew Wyeth Paintings- What they mean

          If you lived in Chadds Ford, PA, you would have heard about this extraordinary painter. Born in 1917, Andrew Wyeth came from a family of talented artists.

  His father, N.C. was one of them.

His paintings are very famous to those that lived through the 50s,60s and even 70s.

But what is the truth behind the paintings. From his brush strokes to his talented models. What does it mean?









                               His paintings are very mysterious. In the famous painting: Christina's World, some people think that it is a woman on the grass, staring into the distance seeing a boarded house. But in real life, that woman is crippled. Was her name Christina? No, actually it wasn't. Well not her first name. Her name was Anna Christina Olson, that grew up in a farm in Maine.

  When Andrew went to Maine, he would stay like a drifter of an old farm that belonged to an old farmer named Alvero Olson and his wife Christina. Sadly, she suffered a crippling disease that caused her the use of mobility in her legs.

But the inspiration he had when he visited them seemed to take notice. With the famous painting Christina's World, not many people knew about the woman being crippled in the picture.
Or how the inspiration was thought up.



Andrew had many models to pose, and some became famous for their art. Christina Olsen, even some of the African Americans who lived in Chadds Ford back when times were tough, he would ask his models to sit and he wouldn't worry about their image, he would just paint away and then... history would be made.


   
                     Winter of 1946. Another famous painting that is known to have a young boy in the fields. Andrew started this painting around the time of his father's sudden death.
   His father and Nephew were killed in a collision with a train when their car stopped in the middle of the tracks.
  Since then, Andrew saw inspired to paint more often. And there are more famous ones of his. Like Groundhog's day.




A painting that shows not only nobody sitting down on a table, but in the background if you can see, a log with teeth since then. Not many people notice the hidden story. There is another farm, this one in Chadds Ford called the Kueners. Having their farm near the Brandywine river, it is still there today. This place inspired Andrew to do many pictures of a model that goes by the name of....
Helga.




Born in the 1930's, Helga Testford was a German model. There are many works of arts devoted to her. Some of them are in the nude.










                                                           It was considered a secret only he and Helga knew about. Started leaking out later in the years, many people were stunned to see another face keep coming up in his art work. Wondering if he had done it for art, or for love.











In later years of his life, Andrew explained that it was only for art, and he started painting less and less despite his age.

  Living to 2009, he experienced 9 years of the new millennium.

His artwork is stunning today as it was long ago. Today marks the anniversary of his life, although no longer with us, the Wyeth protégée is still around.

Andrew's son Jamie, is still alive today painting as his father and grandfather had done many years ago.

      The model known as Helga, is still alive today. Never regretting what she had done, for it was only for art. She still feels guilty posing in nude, but then again... it was art.

There is a painting that is one of Andrew's later works. With all the models in one painting, dancing as if Andrew was already dead. Happy as they twirl ribbons around and dance.










If I had a favorite painting of his....
   well that's the thing. He is an inspiration for many creative people in the world. It doesn't mean I can't pick a favorite, it means I love him a lot more.



Sad that he is no longer with us. His memories and his paintings live on, symbolizing one great artist.